he ground for him by certain malicious persons.

Finally, after four years, Daniello was ready, so far as concerned him,
to cast the above-mentioned horse, but he was obliged to wait many
months more than he would otherwise have done, for want of the supplies
of iron instruments, metal, and other materials that Signor Ruberto was
to give him. But in the end, all these things having been provided,
Daniello embedded the mould, which was a vast mass, between two furnaces
for founding in a very suitable room that he had at Monte Cavallo. The
material being melted and the orifices unstopped, for a time the metal
ran well enough, but at length the weight of the metal burst the mould
of the body of the horse, and all the molten material flowed in a wrong
direction. At first this much troubled the mind of Daniello, but none
the less, having thought well over everything, he found a way to remedy
that great misfortune; and so after two months, casting it a second
time, his ability prevailed over the impediments of Fortune, so that he
executed the casting of that horse (which is a sixth, or more, larger
than that of Antoninus which is on the Campidoglio) perfectly uniform
and equally delicate throughout, and it is a marvellous thing that a
work so large should not weigh more than twenty thousand (libbre).

But such were the discomforts and fatigues that were endured in the work
by Daniello, who was rather feeble in constitution and melancholy than
otherwise, that not long afterwards there came upon him a cruel catarrh,
which much reduced him; indeed, whereas Daniello should have been happy
at having surmounted innumerable difficulties in so rare a casting, it
seemed that he never smiled again, no matter what good fortune might
befall him, and no long time passed before that catarrh, after an
illness of two days, robbed him of his life, on the 4th of April, 1566.
But before that, having foreseen his death, he confessed very devoutly,
and demanded all the Sacraments of the Church; and then, making his
will, he directed that his body should be buried in the new church that
had been begun at the Baths by Pius IV for the Carthusian Monks,
ordaining also that at his tomb, in that place, there should be set up
the statue of the Angel that he had formerly begun for the great portal
of the Castle. And of all this he gave the charge to the Florentine
Michele degli Alberti and to Feliciano of San Vito in the district of
Rome, making them exe