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once they are built, so that they may be more majestic, we sometimes see the image of some god, or of someone god-like, placed atop them: why should I not consider it something I ought to do, that upon this column of mine (I would not dare call it an arch), twelve paces high—which I, the craftsman, have dedicated to you on account of your singular erudition, your supreme kindness, and your greatest merits toward me—I should place at the summit an image of Nicholas the Supreme Pontiff, sculpted by my own hand, so that a certain majesty from the patron himself might be added to the beauty of the work? Thus, both our reverence and piety toward him, and his favor toward us, shall shine forth. It will be established.
Farewell.