Vecchietti, account of the, 352. Vecchio, Palazzo, building of, 355–356; life of the Gonfaloniere and Priori in, 357; _ringhiera_ of, 357–358; added to by the Duke of Athens, 358–359; Duke of Athens expelled from, 360; lions of, 361; Simoncino tortured in, 364; Michele di Lando created Gonfalonier in, 365; Cosimo de’ Medici imprisoned in, 366; Michelozzi restores the, 366–369; Neri de’ Bicci paints tabernacle in, 369; Baldaccio d’Anghieri murdered in, 369–370; Sala de’ Dugento rebuilt in, 371; Archbishop of Pisa and nobles hung from the windows of, 271–274; great Hall of Council built in, 374–375; Savonarola imprisoned in, 375–376; Michelangelo’s David at door of, 376–377; Bandinelli’s Hercules, description of, by Benvenuto Cellini, 378–379; Leonardo da Vinci’s fresco in, 379; destruction of the woodwork in the great Hall of, 380; tumult in, 381–382; Niccolò Capponi proclaims Jesus Christ King of Florence in, 382–383; Duke Alessandro proclaimed in, 383–384; Cosimo I. takes up his abode in, 384–385; Vasari’s work in, 385–387; Buontalenti adds the eastern façade to, 389; marriage feasts in, 389–390; Del Rosso’s work in, 392; Baron Ricasoli’s speech in, 394; the Hall of the Five Hundred becomes the House of Parliament, 394–395. Velluti, The, 299; Donato, chronicle of, 300; Paolo, chronicle of, 301–303. Vespucci, Amerigo, 181. Vettori, Maddalena, love story of, 135–136. Victor Emanuel I., King, 207, 395. Villani, Giovanni, the rising of the people against the nobles described by, 40–42; _Cronica_ of, 52, 55, 76; on Pope Gregory X. in Florence, 152, 179, 211, 213, 355; fortifications of the Palazzo Vecchio by the Duke of Athens described by, 358–359; Filippo, 52; on Dante’s portrait in the Palazzo del Podestà, 214–215; Matteo, 52; on the granite lions of the Palazzo Vecchio, 361, 362. Viviani, Vincenzio, friend of Galileo, 397; entertains Milton, 398. Zenobius, S., miracle of, 31. RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Spelling and accents in Italian words follow the way the original book was printed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, but several remain unbalanced. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.