'Agnolo
afterwards laid the architrave, frieze, and cornice, as will be told
below. It is true that, as it appears from some designs by his hand that
are in our book, he wished to make another arrangement of frieze,
cornice, and gallery, with pediments on each of the eight sides of the
cupola; but he had not time to put this into execution, for, being
carried away by an excess of work from one day to another, he died.

Before this happened, however, he went to Naples and designed the
architecture of the magnificent Palace at Poggio Reale for King Alfonso,
with the beautiful fountains and conduits that are in the courtyard. In
the city, likewise, he made designs for many fountains, some for the
houses of noblemen and some for public squares, with beautiful and
fanciful inventions; and he had the said Palace of Poggio Reale all
wrought with paintings by Piero del Donzello and his brother Polito.
Working in sculpture, likewise, for the said King Alfonso, then Duke of
Calabria, he wrought scenes in low-relief over a door (both within and
without) in the great hall of the Castle of Naples; and he made a marble
gate for the castle after the Corinthian Order, with an infinite number
of figures, giving to that work the form of a triumphal arch, on which
stories from the life of that King and some of his victories are carved
in marble. Giuliano also wrought the decorations of the Porta Capovana,
making therein many varied and beautiful trophies; wherefore he well
deserved that great love should be felt for him by that King, who,
rewarding him liberally for his labours, enriched his descendants.

Giuliano had taught to his nephew Benedetto the arts of tarsia and
architecture, and something about working in marble; and Benedetto was
living in Florence, devoting himself to working at tarsia, because this
brought him greater gains than the other arts did. Now Giuliano was
summoned to Rome by Messer Antonio Rosello of Arezzo, Secretary to Pope
Paul II, to enter the service of that Pontiff. Having gone thither, he
designed the loggie of travertine in the first court of the Palace of S.
Pietro, with three ranges of columns, of which the first is on the
lowest floor, where there are now the Signet Office and other offices;
the second is above this, where the Datary and other prelates live; and
the third and last is where those rooms are that look out on the court
of S. Pietro, which he adorned with gilded ceilings and other ornaments.