The French wits, who were amused to derive Catherine de' Medici from a family of apothecaries, called them pills.
The beautiful lantern at the corner was added by Lorenzo and was the work of an odd ironsmith in Florence for whom he had a great liking--Niccolo Grosso.

For Lorenzo had all that delight in character which belongs so often to the born patron and usually to the born connoisseur.

This Grosso was a man of humorous independence and bluntness.

He had the admirable custom of carrying out his commissions in the order in which they arrived, so that if he was at work upon a set of fire-irons for a poor client, not even Lorenzo himself (who as a matter of fact often tried) could induce him to turn to something more lucrative.

The rich who cannot wait he forced to wait.