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of Constantinople, who had been the blessed occasion and instrument of reducing the Greek church to the right faith again, is remarkable. It’s on the right side of the Church.
21. Returning from hence along the riverside, we came to the high pillar with the statue of Justice in porphyry upon it. It was erected here, because it was in this very place where Cosmus the Great heard the news of the reduction of Siena. A witty nobleman seeing this statue of Justice upon so high a pillar, said, that Justice here was too high placed for poor men to arrive to it. Another observ’d, that Justice there turns her back to the Courts of Justice, which stand not far from thence.
22. Having thus visited the chief things in the town, I visited some places out of the town; chiefly, the Poggio Imperiale, a villa, belonging to the Great Dutchess, and about a good mile distant from the town. In this house I saw rare pictures, and great store of them, the house being furnished with nothing else. In one gallery are the true pictures of diverse late Princes of the House of Austria; of the House of Medices, and of other princes their allies. In other rooms we saw a world of rare pictures as the Venus of Titian, though I think it be but a copy: the admirable St Hierom of Alberto Dureo; a Magdalen of Raphael’s hand; a St John Baptist of Caravagio’s hand: an Adam and Eve of Alberto Durero: a Piety of Pietro Perugino, that is, the picture of our Blessed Lady with our Saviour dead upon her knee: St John Evangelist, and three other
