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92 been or are to be made in this Palace, I propose to speak at more length in another place; for the present I will merely remark, that if II Cronaca and the other ingenious artists, who gave the design of this Hall, would return to life, it is my belief, that they would not recognize either the Palace, the Hall, or anything else that is there. The Hall, that part of it namely which is in square, has a length of ninety braccia, and is thirty-eight braccia wide, omitting all mention of the additions made by Bandinelli and Ammanato, as above described.

But to return to Il Cronaca. In the last years of his life he became possessed with such a frenzy for the discourses of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, and his head was so filled with them, that he would speak of nothing else. This master died in 1509, after an illness of some duration, in the fiftyfifth year of his age. He received honourable sepulture in the Church of Sant' Ambruogio, in the city of Florence and no long time after his decease the following epitaph was written for him by Messer Giovanni Battista Strozzi:—