sign was censured in many
respects, not that it was not a well-proportioned work of its kind, but
because it was too insignificant in comparison with the size of the
structure; and for these reasons that gallery has never been brought to
completion.

Baccio afterwards gave his attention to executing the pavement of S.
Maria del Fiore, and to his other buildings, which were not a few, for
he had under his particular charge all the principal monasteries and
convents of Florence, and many houses of citizens, both within and
without the city. Finally, when near the age of eighty-three, but still
of good and sound judgment, he passed to a better life in 1543, leaving
three sons, Giuliano, Filippo, and Domenico, who had him buried in S.
Lorenzo.

Of these sons, who all gave their attention after the death of Baccio to
the art of carving and working in wood, Giuliano, who was the second,
was the one who applied himself with the greatest zeal to architecture
both during his father's lifetime and afterwards; wherefore, by favour
of Duke Cosimo, he succeeded to his father's place as architect to S.
Maria del Fiore, and continued not only all that Baccio had begun in
that temple, but also all the other buildings that had remained
unfinished at his death. At that time Messer Baldassarre Turini da
Pescia was intending to place a panel-picture by the hand of Raffaello
da Urbino in the principal church of Pescia, of which he was Provost,
and to erect an ornament of stone, or rather, an entire chapel, around
it, and also a tomb; and Giuliano executed all this after his own
designs and models, and also restored for the same patron his house at
Pescia, making in it many beautiful and useful improvements. For Messer
Francesco Campana, formerly First Secretary to Duke Alessandro, and
afterwards to Duke Cosimo de' Medici, the same Giuliano built at
Montughi, without Florence, beside the church, a house which is small
but very ornate, and so well situated, that it commands from its slight
elevation a view of the whole city of Florence and the surrounding
plain. And a most beautiful and commodious house was built at Colle, the
native place of that same Campana, from the design of Giuliano, who
shortly afterwards began for Messer Ugolino Grifoni, Lord of Altopascio,
a palace at San Miniato al Tedesco, which was a magnificent work.

For Ser Giovanni Conti, one of the secretaries of the Lord Duke Cosimo,
he made many useful and beautiful impr