to Florence. PISTOJA 52. Route. 359
(Madonna surrounded by angels) by Andrea della Robbia. The
barrel-vaulting was adorned with coffering and rich garlands in
terracotta by Luca della Robbia.
The Interior, sadly marred by alterations, and restored with little
taste in 1838-39, consists of nave and aisles borne by sixteen columns and
two buttresses. — By the wall of the entrance is the Font, adorned with
a large relief (Baptism of Christ) and four smaller ones (History of the
Baptist) by Andrea Ferrucci da Fiesole (d. 1526); to the left the tomb of
Bishop Alto, with reliefs by Andrea Pisano (?). — To the Right of the
entrance is the *Monument of the jurist and poet Cino da Pistoja (d. 1336),
by the Sienese master Cellino di Nese (1337). The basrelief represents
Cino lecturing to nine pupils, among them Petrarch, who afterwards
composed a sonnet on his death, exhorting the women to mourn for Cino
as the poet of love. — To the Left of the entrance the Monument of Car¬
dinal Forteguerra, with bust and high reliefs, by Verrocchio (1474) and
Lorenzetto. — The Cappella del Sacramento (left of the choir) con¬
tains a Madonna with St. Zeno by Lorenzo di Credi (d. 1513), the finest and
oldest of his altarpieces, the figures strongly reminiscent of Da Vinci (C. dc C).
High relief bust of Bishop Donato de1 Medici by A. Rossellino (1475). — Over
the High Altar a Resurrection by Angelo Bronzino. Beautifully inlaid choir-
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