en made
double by Benedetto, on the arch of the inner door--we have already
spoken of the outer one--he wrought a seated figure of Justice in
marble, with the globe of the world in one hand and a sword in the
other; and round the arch run the following words:

DILIGITE JUSTITIAM QUI JUDICATIS TERRAM.

The whole of this work was executed with marvellous diligence and art.

For the Church of the Madonna delle Grazie, which is a little distance
without the city of Arezzo, the same man made a portico with a flight of
steps in front of the door. In making the portico he placed the arches
on the columns, and right round alongside the roof he made an
architrave, frieze, and great cornice; and in the latter, by way of
drip, he placed a garland of rosettes carved in grey-stone, which jut
out to the extent of one braccio and a third, insomuch that between the
projection of the front of the cyma above to the dentils and ovoli below
the drip there is a space of two braccia and a half, which, with the
half braccio added by the tiles, makes a projecting roof all round of
three braccia in width, beautiful, rich, useful, and ingenious. In this
work there is a contrivance worthy to be well considered by craftsmen,
for, wishing to give this roof all that projection without modillions or
corbels to support it, he made the slabs, on which the rosettes are
carved, so large that only the half of their length projected, and the
other half was built into the solid wall; wherefore, being thus
counterpoised, they were able to support the rest and all that was laid
upon them, as they have done up to the present day, without any danger
to that building. And since he did not wish this roof to appear to be
made, as it was, of pieces, he surrounded it all, piece by piece, with a
moulding made of sections well dove-tailed and let into one another,
which served as a ground to the garland of rosettes; and this united the
whole work together in such a manner that all who see it judge it to be
of one piece. In the same place he had a flat ceiling made of gilded
rosettes, which is much extolled.

Now Benedetto had bought a farm without Prato, on the road from the
Porta Fiorentina in the direction of Florence, and no more than half a
mile from that place. On the main road, beside the gate, he built a most
beautiful little chapel, with a niche wherein he placed a Madonna with
the Child in her arms, so well wrought in terra-cotta, that even as it
is, w