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 with Marble) is perished. There are divers good statues on all sides of it, but the best of them all is that of the Zuccone, or balld man, made by Donatello, which he himself estemed so much, that when he would affirm any thing seriously, he used to say: Alla fe ch'lio porto al mio Zuccone: and the same Donatello having finished it, spoke to it in jest, and said: Favella, horsu, favella; o ti venga il cacasangue: such good conceits have fantastical men of themselves and their own works.

14. Near to the Domo also, stands the Baptistery, or round Church of St. John, where all the children of the Town are baptized. The brazen doors of it (three in all) are admirable, especially that which looks towards the Great Church, of which Michel Angelo being asked his opinion, answered, That it was so well made, that it might stand at the entrance of Paradise. These doors are all of Brass historied into figures, containing the