And again, so
that the said shop may have wherewithal to dispose of its smoke as
it has now, it occurred to me to give the said statue a horn of
plenty in its hand, hollow within, which would serve for the
chimney. Then having the head of the said figure empty, like the
other members, of that also I believe we could make some use, for
there is here in the piazza a huckster, very much my friend, who
tells me in secret that it would make a very fine dovecot. Another
fancy strikes me that would be much better, but we should have to
make the figure ever so much larger. And it might be done, for a
tower is built up of pieces; and that is, that the head should
serve as campanile for San Lorenzo, which needs one badly. And the
bells hanging within, the sound clanging from the mouth, it would
seem that the said colossus were howling for mercy, and especially
on feast days, when they ring oftenest and with the largest bells.
"About the transport for the marbles for the above-mentioned
statue, so that no one shall know of it, meseems they should come
by night and well covered up, so that they may not be seen. There
will be danger at the gates, and we must provide for it somehow;
at the worst, we shall have San Gallo.(138)
"As to doing, or not doing, the things that are to do, and which
you say may stand over, it is better to let them be done by those
who will do them, for I have so much to do that I do not care to
undertake more.
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