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4 The Loggia of the blessings at San Giovanni Laterano.
5 A very large Apostolic Palace in the said place.
6 The transportation of the Scala Santa Holy Stairs, and the adornments of the Sancta Sanctorum Holy of Holies.
7 The transportation, erection, and restoration of the Spire of San Giovanni, which was broken into many pieces.
8 The same for the Spire of Santa Maria Maggiore, and that of the Popolo.
9 The Hospital for the beggars at Ponte Sisto.
10 A most sumptuous Library in the Belvedere in the Vatican.
11 He has placed bronze statues of Saint Peter and Saint Paul above the Columns, Trajan's and Antonine's, with the restoration of the said Antonine Column.
12 The Church of San Girolamo of the Slavs at Ripetta.
13 Transportation and restoration of the Horses of Praxiteles and Phidias, which were damaged by antiquity.
14 Leveled Piazzas, and made public fountains, and leveled the Via Pia at Monte Cavallo.
15 A very large Palace in the same place.
16 The new street named Felice, two and a half miles long.
17 Two other new streets depart from Porta San Lorenzo; one arrives at the Piazza of Santa Maria Maggiore, and the other at the Piazza of the Baths.
18 Another new street from Santa Maria Maggiore to the Palace of San Marco.
19 Another street from San Giovanni Laterano to the Colosseum.
20 Another that goes from Porta Salara to the Via Pia.
21 He has leveled the hill of Santa Maria Maggiore.
22 He has leveled the Piazza of San Giovanni Laterano and filled the street that goes from the said Church to Santa Maria Maggiore.
23 The large Dome of the Church of Saint Peter with greatest diligence and expense; a most stupendous building.
24 A very large public washbasin at the Piazza of the Baths.
25 He has caused the removal of the antiquities that impeded the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, in order to adorn it in the middle of the said Piazza.
26 A very large staircase that descends from the papal Palace into Saint Peter's, by which his Holiness can enter the Church without going out in public.
27 The restoration of the Church of Santa Sabina.
28 He has raised the Great Tower of the Belvedere.
29 Public laundry for the wool art at the fountain of Trevi.
30 Lastly, he has begun a very large Palace in the Vatican on the 30th of April, 1589.
All these things are finished, except for the Dome and the Palace of the Vatican, which, with the diligence that is used there, will be brought to perfection in a short time within the City of Rome, all at the expense of his Holiness. Many others are omitted, with no mention made except of the most notable.
31 And outside of Rome, in the same time, he has made a College of the Marchigiani at Bologna.
32 He is having a new City made at the Madonna of Loreto with much expense, in growth of the said holy House.
33 Another new City at Montalto, homeland of his Holiness, where an entire mountain is being leveled.
34 A water conduit at Civitavecchia, six miles away from that City.
35 Furthermore, he has begun a Bridge over the Tiber between the Borghetto and Otricoli.