One of these, a bronze statue to Peel faces east; while Priestley's marble statue faces south.

Precisely in the same way ought statues to be hewn out from the marble with the chisel; first uncovering the highest surfaces, and proceeding to disclose the lowest.

There were tall columns, too, to commemorate victories or the crushing out of revolutionary spirit; rarely, indeed, in comparison, a statue to a man of scientific or literary or artistic eminence.

A single instance of this generosity will sufficenamely, the two statues which he presented to his dearest friend, Messer Ruberto Strozzi.