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The double tomb of Cardinal Giovanni Michiel and Bishop Antonio Orso is on the counterfaçade, to the left of the entrance of the church. It is attributed to Jacopo Sansovino who gained the commission to rebuild the Servite church of San Marcello in Rome after a fire in 1519.
The upper reclining effigy is of Cardinal Giovanni Michiel (1446-1503), a nephew of Pope Paul II and a generous benefactor of the Servites. According to rumour he was poisoned by one of the Borgias in 1503. The lower reclining effigy is Bishop Antonio Orso (died 1511), the Cardinal's nephew. Below his effigy is a pile of books, an allusion to his extensive library, made up of about seven hundred and thirty books, which he donated to the friars.
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