he went to Siena in his
shirt. However, he was received with honour and reclothed by his
friends, and a little time afterwards he was given a provision and a
salary by the Commonwealth, to the end that he might give his attention
to the fortification of that city. Living there, he had two children;
and, besides what he did for the public service, he made many designs of
houses for his fellow-citizens, and the design for the ornament of the
organ, which is very beautiful, in the Church of the Carmine.

[Illustration: COURTYARD OF PALAZZO MASSIMI

(_After_ Baldassarre Peruzzi. _Rome_)

_Anderson_]

Meanwhile, the armies of the Emperor and the Pope had advanced to the
siege of Florence, and his Holiness sent Baldassarre to the camp to
Baccio Valori, the Military Commissary, to the end that Baccio might
avail himself of his services for the purposes of his operations and for
the capture of the city. But Baldassarre, loving the liberty of his
former country more than the favour of the Pope, and in no way fearing
the indignation of so great a Pontiff, would never lend his aid in any
matter of importance. The Pope, hearing of this, for a short time bore
him no little ill-will; but when the war was finished, Baldassarre
desiring to return to Rome, Cardinals Salviati, Trivulzi, and Cesarino,
to all of whom he had given faithful service in many works, restored him
to the favour of the Pope and to his former appointments. He was thus
able to return without hindrance to Rome, where, not many days after, he
made for the Signori Orsini the designs of two very beautiful palaces,
which were built on the way to Viterbo, and of some other edifices for
Apuglia. But meanwhile he did not neglect the studies of astrology, nor
those of mathematics and the others in which he much delighted, and he
began a book on the antiquities of Rome, with a commentary on Vitruvius,
making little by little illustrative drawings beside the writings of
that author, some of which are still to be seen in the possession of
Francesco da Siena, who was his disciple, and among them some papers
with drawings of ancient edifices and of the modern manner of building.

While living in Rome, also, he made the design for the house of the
Massimi, drawn in an oval form, with a new and beautiful manner of
building; and for the facade he made a vestibule of Doric columns
showing great art and good proportion, with a beautiful distribution of
detail in the court and in