CHAPTER III.
The Duomo III: A Ceremony and a Museum The Scoppio del Carro--The Pazzi beneficent--Holy Saturday's programme--April 6th, 1912--The flying palle--The nervous pyrotechnist--The influence of noon--A little sister of the Duomo--Donatello's cantoria--Luca della Robbia's cantoria.
In the last chapter we saw the Pazzi family as very black sheep, although there are plenty of students of Florentine history who hold that any attempt to rid Florence of the Medici was laudable.

In this chapter we see them in a kindlier situation as benefactors to the city.

For it happened that when Pazzo de' Pazzi, a founder of the house, was in the Holy Land during the First Crusade, it was his proud lot to set the Christian banner on the walls of Jerusalem, and, as a reward, Godfrey of Boulogne gave him some flints from the Holy Sepulchre.

These he brought to Florence, and they are now preserved at SS.

Apostoli, the little church in the Piazza del Limbo, off the Borgo SS.