It is a day of climbing, and a hundred or more steps either way mean nothing now.

For here is a gentle little church with swift, silent monks in it, and a few flowers in bowls, and a religious picture by that strange Piero di Cosimo whose heart was with the gods in exile; and the view of Monte Ceceri, on the other side of Fiesole, seen through the cypresses here, which could not be better in disposition had Benozzo Gozzoli himself arranged them, is very striking and memorable.
Fiesole's darling son is Mino the sculptor--the "Raphael of the chisel"-- whose radiant Madonnas and children and delicate tombs may be seen here and there all over Florence.

The piazza is named after him; he is celebrated on a marble slab outside the museum, where all the famous names of the vicinity may be read too; and in the church is one of his most charming groups and finest heads.

They are in a little chapel on the right of the choir.

The head is that of Bishop Salutati, humorous, wise, and benign, and the group represents the adoration of a merry little Christ by a merry little S.John and others.