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be built by Luca Piti, after the design of Brunellischi: but the expences growing too great for Piti's purse, it was bought by the Mother of great Cosmus the II, and afterwards carried on by her to that perfection we now see it in, and which makes it one of the prime Pallaces of Europe. The design of it (for it is not yet all quite built) is to be a perfect Roman H, with double Roomes on all sides. As you ascend up to it, by an easie ascent from the Street, it presents you with a fair broad-side of building, in which I counted two and twenty great windows all in a row, and all alike, and all of them cheekt up on either Side by Fine Stone Pillars. The fashion of building in this Pallace, as in most of the best Pallaces of Florence, is that which they call in Architecture, la maniera rustica; where great Freestones are made advancing a little one over the other. Entering into the Pallace, we saw the fair Court; and in the end of it, the Grotta or Fountain with a large Basin, in whichthey