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104 and hugely cried up by all Sculptors and Virtuosi. See also in the Wall of the old Sacristy the neat Tomb of John and Peter Medices, sons of Cosmus, sirnamed Pater Patriæ: it's the work of Andrea Varochio. In the midst of this Church before the High Altar, lies buried Cosmus Pater Patriæ, the raiser of the Medicean family. In the Cloister joining to this Church, is erected the Statue of Paulas Jovius the Historian; and near to this Statue you mount up a pair of Stairs to the rare Library of Manuscripts, called Bibliotheca Laurentiana, the Catalogue of whole Books is printed at Amsterdam An. 1622, in Octavo.

The Library.

the great Dukes Gallery.

3. The Gallery of the old Palace. This is the great that Gallery so famous, and so frequently visited by all Strangers. At your entrance into this Gallery you see a Vast long Room made like an L: on the left hand of this Gallery, there runs a perpetual glass Window; on the other side are set a row of Pictures in great, of those of the Medicean Family: under the Windows, & also under the said Pictures stand a row of curious Marble Statues, antient ones all, and of prime hands. Over the said Windows and Pictures, runs a close row of less Pictures, representing to the Life the most famous Men of later times for Learning and Arms; the Souldiers being on the right hand, and the Scholars on the left. The Statues aforesaid are well nigh a hundred in all, but all rare ones: Some whereof I yet remember, and they are these: that of Leda, of Diana, of Bacchus, of Hercules, of the Gladiator standing on his Guard, of Scipio Africanus in Brass, shewing the antient Habit and Dress of the old Romans, far different