s from the Duke, his Excellency granted him
to them very readily; and he, having gone, served them in what they
desired in such a manner, that they remained very well satisfied and
showed him innumerable courtesies.

He then made for the Duke, who desired to construct a sea-port at
Pesaro, a very beautiful model; and this was taken to Venice, to the
house of Count Giovan Giacomo Leonardi, at that time the Duke's
Ambassador in that place, to the end that it might be seen by many of
the profession who often assembled, with other choice spirits, to hold
discussions and disputations on various matters in the house of the
above-named Count, who was a truly remarkable man. There, then, after
that model had been seen and the fine discourse of Genga had been
heard, the model was held by all without exception to be masterly and
beautiful, and the master who had made it a man of the rarest genius.
But, when he had returned to Pesaro, the model after all was not
carried into execution, because new circumstances of great importance
drove that project out of the Duke's mind.

About that time Genga made the design of the Church of Monte
L'Abbate, and also that of the Church of S. Piero in Mondavio, which
was carried into execution by Don Pier Antonio Genga in such a manner,
that, for a small work, I do not believe that there is anything better
to be seen.

These works finished, no long time passed before, Pope Julius III
having been elected, and the Duke of Urbino having been created by him
Captain General of Holy Church, his Excellency went to Rome, and Genga
with him. There, his Holiness wishing to fortify the Borgo, at the
request of the Duke Genga made some very beautiful designs, which,
with a number of others, are in the collection of his Excellency at
Urbino. For these reasons the fame of Bartolommeo spread abroad, and
the Genoese, while he was living with the Duke in Rome, asked for him
from his Excellency, in order to make use of him in some
fortifications of their own; but the Duke would not grant him to them,
either at that time or on another occasion when they again asked for
him, after his return to Urbino.

In the end, when he was near the close of his life, there were sent to
Pesaro by the Grand Master of Rhodes two knights of that Order of
Jerusalem, to beseech his Excellency that he should deign to lend them
Bartolommeo, to the end that they might take him to the Island of
Malta, in which they wished to construc