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Rh life of the saint above. Under St. Peter is his crucifixion; under St. Paul, his decapitation; while certain events from the lives of the Saviour and the Madonna are in like manner represented beneath their figures. On the lower part of the inside of the door, Antonio took it into his head to execute a small relief in bronze, representing Simone and himself with all their disciples going to amuse themselves in a vineyard,^ and having with them an ass loaded with the requisites for a feast. These masters were not constantly occupied with this door during the whole twelve years: within that period they also constructed certain sepulchral monuments of marble for different popes and cardinals in San Pietro; all of which have been destroyed in the erection of the new church.

When these works were completed, Antonio was invited to Milan by the Duke Francesco Sforza, then Gonfaloniere of Holy Church, who had seen his works in Pome. Here he was commissioned to erect the hospital for the poor (Albergo de’ Poveri di Dio), a refuge intended for the sick, both men and women, as well as for helpless innocents not legitimately born: and this work Antonio accomplished after his own design. The division of the building set