Series 2 > Household book of Lady Grisell Baillie

OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 395
here and will be glad to see you if he is at home. Lodge
at the 3 kings.
Sienna to Castiglioncello . . . . . .1
To Pogibonsi ....... 1
To Le Tavernelle ....... 1
To St. Cassiano ....... 1
To Florence 1
A French house in the Via Magia is the best to lodge at,
where we were well used, Collins’s, an English house there,
is generally full and not the most reasonable. All English
houses or any English body you employ abroad for any
thing are generally the first and readyest to impose upon
you, therefor to be avoided, or at least be much upon your
guard.
If Mr. Mann is stile Resident here he will conduct and
take care of you in every thing. In case he is not I set
down what follows. See the galary, which imploys you
several days, ask for the Copys in Brass of the 4 famouse
status that are in the Tribuna, where there is inumerable
fine and curious things, as there is in every part and room
in that galery. The great Church, which is larger every
way then St. Pauls in London; behind the great alter in
the dome is an unfinisht statue of a dead Saviour by
Michal Angelo. See Giotto’s ToAver from whence there is
a fine prospect of the Citty and Country. Observe the
gates of the Baptistry, particularly that facing the church.
It is the finest piece of work of that kind perhaps in the
world. The little chappel under St. Lorenzo where the
bodys of the great Dukes are reposited is the design of
Michal Angelo and several of the statues in it are by his
own hand. The Library of St. Lorenzo, the entrence into
it with the stairs are from the design of M. Angelo. The
Cloysters of the Annunciata are painted by Andrea del
Sarto and his scholars. The best are a Saint bringing to
life a dround boy, Avhich is the first on your right hand
as you enter, and a Maddonna with Joseph leaning on a
sack oposit to the entry.