To make a charge for the cloisters alone seems to me utterly wicked.

Let the Pazzi Chapel at S.Croce and the Spanish Chapel here have fees, if you like; but the cloisters should be open to all.

Children should be encouraged to play there.
Since, however, S.Maria Novella imposes a fee we must pay it, and the new arrangement at any rate carries this advantage with it, that one knows what one is expected to pay and can count on entrance.
The cloisters are everywhere interesting to loiter in, but their chief fame is derived from the Spanish Chapel, which gained that name when in 1566 it was put at the disposal of Eleanor of Toledo's suite on the occasion of her marriage to Cosimo I.Nothing Spanish about it otherwise.

Both structure and frescoes belong to the fourteenth century.

Of these frescoes, which are of historical and human interest rather than artistically beautiful, that one on the right wall as we enter is the most famous.