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After this work and some sculptures in marble executed to his great
glory in the Madonna, which is on the side of the Ponte Vecchio,
Andrea left his brother Bernardo to work by himself in the Campo
Santo at a Hell made according to Dante's description, which was
afterwards much damaged in 1530, and restored by Solazzino, a painter
of our own day. Meanwhile Andrea returned to Florence, where he
painted in fresco in the middle of the Church of S. Croce on a very
large wall on the right hand, the same things which he had done in
the Campo Santo at Pisa, in three similar pictures, but omitting the
scene in which St Macario is showing human wretchedness to the three
kings, and the life of the hermits who are serving God on the
mountain. But he did all the rest of that work, displaying better
design and more diligence than at Pisa, but retaining almost the same
methods in the inventions, style, scrolls and the rest, without
changing anything except the portraits from life; because in this
work he introduced the portraits of some of his dearest friends into
his Paradise, while he condemned his enemies to hell. Among the elect
may be seen the portrait in profile of Pope Clement VI. with the
tiara on his head, who reduced the Jubilee from a hundred to fifty
years, was a friend of the Florentines, and possessed some of their
paintings which he valued highly. Here also is Maestro Dino del
Garbo, then a most excellent physician, clothed after the manner of
the doctors of that day with a red cap on his head lined with
miniver, while an angel holds him by the hand. There are also many
other portraits which have not been identified. Among the damned he
drew the Guardi, sergeant of the Commune of Florence, dragged by the
devil with a hook. He may be recognised by three red lilies on his
white hat, such as were worn by the sergeants and other like
officials. Andrea did this because the sergeant had upon one occasion
distrained his goods. He also drew there the notary and the judge who
were against him in that cause. Next to Guardi is Cecco d'Ascoli, a
famous wizard of the time, and slightly above him, and in the middle
is a hypocritical friar, who is furtively trying to mingle with the
good, while an angel discovers him and thrusts him among the damned.
Besides Bernardo, Andrea had another brother called Jacopo, who
devoted himself, but with little success, to sculpture. For this
brother Andrea had sometimes made designs in relief i