o, strong in laws, peace, arms, science, wisdom, tongues, and arts,
and also because the said Lord Duke is just in the laws, compassionate
in peace, valorous in arms, noble through the sciences, wise in his
encouragement of tongues and other culture, and liberal to the arts,
Tribolo wished that on the other side from the Justice, Compassion,
Valour, Nobility, Wisdom, and Liberality, on the left hand, as will be
seen below, there should be these other figures: Laws, Peace, Arms,
Sciences, Tongues, and Arts. And it was most appropriately arranged
that in this manner these statues and images should be placed, as
they would have been, above the Arno and Mugnone, in order to signify
that they do honour to Florence. It was also proposed that in the
pediments there should be placed portrait-busts of men of the house of
Medici, one in each--over Justice, for example, the portrait of his
Excellency, that being his particular virtue, over Compassion that of
the Magnificent Giuliano, over Valour Signor Giovanni, over Nobility
the elder Lorenzo, over Wisdom the elder Cosimo or Clement VII, and
over Liberality Pope Leo. And in the pediments on the other side it
was suggested that there might be placed other heads from the house of
Medici, or of persons of the city connected with that house. But since
these names make the matter somewhat confused, they have been placed
here in the following order:

SUMMER. THE MUGNONE. GATE. THE ARNO. SPRING.

ARTS. L L LIBERALITY.
TONGUES. O O WISDOM.
SCIENCES. G G NOBILITY.
ARMS. G G VALOUR.
PEACE. I I COMPASSION.
LAWS. A A JUSTICE.

AUTUMN. GATE. LOGGIA. GATE. WINTER.

All these ornaments would have made this in truth the richest, the
most magnificent, and the most ornate garden in Europe; but these
works were not carried to completion, for the reason that Tribolo was
not able to take measures to have them finished while the Duke was in
the mind to continue them, as he might have done in a short time,
having men in abundance and the Duke ready to spend money, and not
suffering from those hindrances that afterwards stopped him. The Duke,
indeed, not being contented at that time with the great quantity of
water that is to be seen there, was thinki