ulptor; and there are certain works by his hand in S.
Maria Trastevere and in other places.

Chimenti Camicia, of whose origin nothing is known save that he was a
Florentine, was employed in the service of the King of Hungary, for whom
he made palaces, gardens, fountains, churches, fortresses, and many
other buildings of importance, with ornaments, carvings, decorated
ceilings, and other things of the kind, which were executed with much
diligence by Baccio Cellini. After these works, drawn by love for his
country, Chimenti returned to Florence, whence he sent to Baccio (who
remained there), as presents for the King, certain pictures by the hand
of Berto Linaiuolo, which were held very beautiful in Hungary and much
extolled by that King. This Berto (of whom I will not refrain from
making this record as well), after having painted many pictures in a
beautiful manner, which are in the houses of many citizens, died at the
very height of his powers, cutting short the great expectations that
had been formed of him. But to return to Chimenti; he had not been long
in Florence when he returned to Hungary, where he continued to serve the
King; but while he was journeying on the Danube in order to give designs
for mills, in consequence of fatigue he was seized by a sickness, which
carried him off in a few days to the other life. The works of these
masters date about the year 1470.

About the same time, during the pontificate of Pope Sixtus IV, there
lived in Rome one Baccio Pintelli, a Florentine, who was rewarded for
the great skill that he had in architecture by being employed by that
Pope in all his building enterprises. With his design, then, were built
the Church and Convent of S. Maria del Popolo, and certain highly ornate
chapels therein, particularly that of Domenico della Rovere, Cardinal of
San Clemente and nephew of that Pope. The same Pontiff erected a palace
in Borgo Vecchio after the design of Baccio, which was then held to be a
very beautiful and well-planned edifice. The same master built the Great
Library under the apartments of Niccola, and that chapel in the Palace
that is called the Sistine, which is adorned with beautiful paintings.
He also rebuilt the structure of the new Hospital of S. Spirito in
Sassia (which was burnt down almost to the foundations in the year
1471), adding to it a very long loggia and all the useful conveniences
that could be desired. Within the hospital, along its whole length, he
cause