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The Voyage

Michael Angelo representing the Day, the Night, Aurora, and the Evening; the four parts which compose Time, by which all Men are brought to their Graves: That which represents Night is a rare statue, and hugely cryed up by all Sculptors and Virtuosi. See also in the Wall of the old Sacristy the neat Tombe of John and Peter Medices sons of Cosmus, sirnamed Pater Patriæ; Its the work of Andrea Varochio. In the midst of this Church, before the High Altar, lies buried Cosmus Pater Patriæ the raiser of the Medicean Family. In the Cloister joyning to this Church, is erected the Statue of Paulus Jovius the Historian; and near to this Statue you mount up a pair of Stairs to the rare Library of Manuscripts calledThe Library. Bibliotheca Laurentiana, the Catalogue of whose Books is printed at Amsterdam An. 1622, in Octavo.

The great Dukes Gallery.3. The Gallery of the old Pallace. This is that Gallery so famous, and so frequently visited by all Strangers. At your entrance into this Gallery,

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