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Os Nobility in General.
Temples os S. Marco, S. Lorenzo, and the Monaslery os
S. VerdianajtfH^ in the mountains os Ficsole, S. Girola-
mo, with the Abbey thereto belonging. Atfo in Mugello&e
dd not onely repair the Church sor the Friers, but took^ it
diwn,and built it anew. Beside: those magnisicent build-
ings in S. Croce, in S’.Agnoli, and i’.MiniatOj&e made
Altars, andsumptuous Chappels. All which Temples and
€happels,besde$ the buildings of them, were by him paved,
and sumifhed throughly with all things necessary. With
thest publicly buildings, we may number his private houses,
whereof one within the City meet sor so great a personage,
and sour other without,at Carriaggi,ar Fiesole,<tjCasag-
givolo,and at Trebio,^// Palaces sitter sor Princes than
private persons. And because his magnisicent houses in Italy
did not in his opinion maky him famous enough, he built in
Jerusalem an Hospital to receive poor and diseasedPH-
grimes. In which work^he consumed great sums os money.
And albeit these bail dings,and every other his aftions were
princely,and that in Florence he lived liky a Prince , yet
so governed by wisdom, as he never exceeded the bounds of
civil modefty. For in his conversationyn riding, in marry-
inghis Ch'ldren and Kinssolkj, he was liky all other mo-
de}! anddiscreet Citizens : because he well kjtewythat ex-
traordinary things,which are os all men with admiration
beheld,do procure more envy,than those which without o/ien-
tation are honejlly covered. 1 omit, as followeth (hortly
af.er,his great and excesfivecharge in entertaining of
learned men of all profelsions, toinstrust the youth os
Florence:h\s bounty to Argiropolo a Grecian, and Mar-
cilioFicinq, ( whom he maintained for the exerciseof
his own (Indies in his house,and gave him goodly lands
near his house of Carraggi) men in that time ofiingn-
lar learning, because Vertue rears him rather to Won-
der, than imitation.
To proceed jno less respe&,and honour is to be attri-
buted toEloquenee,wfaereby so many have raised their
esteem and fortunes, as able to draw Civility out os
Barbarism, and sway whole Kingdoms by leading, with
Os Nobility in General.
Temples os S. Marco, S. Lorenzo, and the Monaslery os
S. VerdianajtfH^ in the mountains os Ficsole, S. Girola-
mo, with the Abbey thereto belonging. Atfo in Mugello&e
dd not onely repair the Church sor the Friers, but took^ it
diwn,and built it anew. Beside: those magnisicent build-
ings in S. Croce, in S’.Agnoli, and i’.MiniatOj&e made
Altars, andsumptuous Chappels. All which Temples and
€happels,besde$ the buildings of them, were by him paved,
and sumifhed throughly with all things necessary. With
thest publicly buildings, we may number his private houses,
whereof one within the City meet sor so great a personage,
and sour other without,at Carriaggi,ar Fiesole,<tjCasag-
givolo,and at Trebio,^// Palaces sitter sor Princes than
private persons. And because his magnisicent houses in Italy
did not in his opinion maky him famous enough, he built in
Jerusalem an Hospital to receive poor and diseasedPH-
grimes. In which work^he consumed great sums os money.
And albeit these bail dings,and every other his aftions were
princely,and that in Florence he lived liky a Prince , yet
so governed by wisdom, as he never exceeded the bounds of
civil modefty. For in his conversationyn riding, in marry-
inghis Ch'ldren and Kinssolkj, he was liky all other mo-
de}! anddiscreet Citizens : because he well kjtewythat ex-
traordinary things,which are os all men with admiration
beheld,do procure more envy,than those which without o/ien-
tation are honejlly covered. 1 omit, as followeth (hortly
af.er,his great and excesfivecharge in entertaining of
learned men of all profelsions, toinstrust the youth os
Florence:h\s bounty to Argiropolo a Grecian, and Mar-
cilioFicinq, ( whom he maintained for the exerciseof
his own (Indies in his house,and gave him goodly lands
near his house of Carraggi) men in that time ofiingn-
lar learning, because Vertue rears him rather to Won-
der, than imitation.
To proceed jno less respe&,and honour is to be attri-
buted toEloquenee,wfaereby so many have raised their
esteem and fortunes, as able to draw Civility out os
Barbarism, and sway whole Kingdoms by leading, with