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"Then he made the third floor, where the Signori and the gonfalonier lived, more ornate, providing some living rooms for the Signori, opening onto a corridor with windows overlooking the courtyard." II-37
Cappella dei Priori, Palazzo Vecchio
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"Michelozzo also used huge iron bands to reinforce the campanile, which had cracked because of the weight of the unsupported part that is on the brackets towards the piazza." II-38
Section showing the projection of the campanile
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"And now if it seems that I have dwelt on this building perhaps longer than was needed, I deserve to be excused, for having shown in the life of Arnolfo that it was built out of true, with unequal columns in the courtyard, arches some large, some small, incommodious stairways and rooms all askew I was then bound to point out the condition to which it was brought by the talent and judgement of Michelozzo." II-39 Reconstruction of Arnolfo's Palazzo
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"Finally after the Lord Duke Cosimo had gone to live there in the year 1538, he determined to see if it were possible, without spoiling the old part with its good features, to set it to rights and to give order, convenience and proportion to the inconvenient and uncomfortable rooms and stairways. So he commissioned Giorgio Vasari, Aretine painter and architect, to put right the rooms..." II-38 Studiolo of Francesco I by Vasari
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"...Cosimo de' Medici and his brother Lorenzo obtained from Pope Eugenius the church and convent of San Marco...and being much inclined to the practice of religion they ordered that the convent of San Marco should be rebuilt on the most spacious and magnificent lines and with all the conveniences that the friars could best desire." II-41 Plan of San Marco
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"When Cosimo had bought the site where the choir is today, the chapel, the tribune and the choir were built under the directions of Michelozzo, and furnished in all respects in the year 1439." II-41
Sacristy, San Marco
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"Then the library was made, 180 feet long and 36 feet wide, and vaulted above and below with 64 shelves of cypress wood filled with splendid books." II-42
Library, San Marco
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"Next he brought to completion the dormitory, which he made square in form, and finally the cloister and all the very commodious rooms of that convent..." II-42
Cloister, San Marco
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"Cosimo had made to Michelozzo's design the novitiate of Santa Croce in Florence, including the chapel and the entrance way that goes to the sacristy, to the novitiate itself and to the stairs of the dormitory..." II-42
Chapel of SS Cosmas and Damien, Novitiate, Santa Croce
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Stairway, Novitiate, Santa Croce
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"The grey-stone door which he made, leading from the church to the other places, was much praised in those times for its novelty and its finely made pediment, it being very little the custom then to imitate the good style of antique work as this does." II-43
Portal to the novitiate corridor, Santa Croce
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