hich is worthy of no matter how great a Prince, had
therefore read the works of Vitruvius, Leon Batista Alberti, and others
who have written on this subject, and he wished to put what he had
learned into practice. And when he saw the designs of Falconetto, and
perceived with what profound knowledge he spoke of these matters, and
rendered clear all the difficulties that can arise through the variety
of the Orders of architecture, he conceived such a love for him that he
took him into his own house and kept him there as an honoured guest for
twenty-one years, which was the whole of the rest of Giovan Maria's
life.

During this time Falconetto executed many works with the help of the
same Messer Luigi. The latter, desiring to see the antiquities of Rome
on the spot, even as he had seen them in the drawings of Giovan Maria,
went to Rome, taking him with him; and there he devoted himself to
examining everything minutely, having him always in his company. After
they had returned to Padua, a beginning was made with building from the
design and model of Falconetto that most beautiful and ornate loggia
which is in the house of the Cornari, near the Santo; and the palace was
to be erected next, after the model made by Messer Luigi himself. In
this loggia the name of Giovan Maria is carved on a pilaster.

The same architect built a very large and magnificent Doric portal for
the Palace of the Captain of that place; and this portal is much praised
by everyone as a work of great purity. He also erected two very
beautiful gates for the city, one of which, called the Porta di S.
Giovanni, and leading to Vicenza, is very fine, and commodious for the
soldiers who guard it; and the other, which is very well designed, was
called the Porta Savonarola. He made, likewise, for the Friars of S.
Dominic, the design and model of the Church of S. Maria delle Grazie,
and laid the foundations; and this work, as may be seen from the model,
is so beautiful and well designed, that one of equal size to rival it
has perhaps never been seen up to our own day in any other place. And
by the same master was made the model of a most superb palace for Signor
Girolamo Savorgnano, at his well fortified stronghold of Usopo in
Friuli; for which all the foundations were then laid, and it had begun
to rise above the ground, when, by reason of the death of that nobleman,
it was left in that condition without being carried further; but if this
building had been fini