Taking Corso Vittorio Emanuele uphill again, on the left is a small Corinthian column, erected in 1658 to commemorate the canonization (Nov. 1 of that year) of the Augustinian bishop Tommaso di Villanova. On the right is the graceful Casa Bruni (later Checchi and Marezi), 15th-16th centuries, inhabited by Ascanio Condivi (Michelangelo's first biographer), who probably made alterations to it; note the elegant loggia facing the square, the Guelph-cross windows, and the portal on whose lintel reads: DEO ET PATRIAE.