ugust 1 to receive
Absolution, Cosimo sent thither Michelozzo, who brought the water of a
spring, which rose half-way up the brow of the hill, to the fountain,
which he covered with a very rich and lovely loggia resting on some
columns made of separate pieces and bearing the arms of Cosimo. Within
the convent, also at the commission of Cosimo, he made many useful
improvements for the friars; and these the magnificent Lorenzo de'
Medici afterwards renewed with more adornment and at greater expense,
besides presenting to that Madonna the image of her in wax which is
still to be seen there. Cosimo also caused the road that leads from the
said Madonna degli Angeli to the city to be paved with bricks; nor did
Michelozzo take his leave of those parts before he had made the design
for the old Citadel of Perugia. Having finally returned to Florence, he
built a house on the Canto de' Tornaquinci for Giovanni Tornabuoni,
similar in almost every way to the palace that he had made for Cosimo,
save that the facade is not in rustic-work and has no cornices above,
but is quite plain.

After the death of Cosimo, by whom Michelozzo had been loved as much as
a dear friend can be loved, his son Piero caused him to build the marble
Chapel of the Crucifix in S. Miniato sul Monte; and in the half-circle
of the arch at the back of the said chapel Michelozzo carved in
low-relief a Falcon with the Diamond (the emblem of Cosimo, father of
Piero), which was truly a very beautiful work. After these things, the
same Piero de' Medici, intending to build the Chapel of the Nunziata, in
the Church of the Servi, entirely of marble, besought Michelozzo, now an
old man, to give him his advice in the matter, both because he greatly
admired his talents and because he knew how faithful a friend and
servant he had been to his father Cosimo. This Michelozzo did, and the
charge of constructing it was given to Pagno di Lapo Partigiani, a
sculptor of Fiesole, who, as one who wished to include many things in a
small space, showed many ideas in this work. This chapel is supported by
four marble columns about nine braccia high, made with double flutings
in the Corinthian manner, with the bases and capitals variously carved
and with double members. On the columns rest the architrave, frieze, and
cornice, likewise with double members and carvings and wrought with
various things of fancy, and particularly with foliage and the emblems
and arms of the Medici. Between the