nd the New all in keeping with that Mystery, as has been told
in part elsewhere.

I had forgotten to say, also, that the year before, when I went the
first time to kiss the Pope's feet, I took the road by Perugia in order
to set in place three large altar-pieces executed for a refectory of the
Black Friars of S. Piero in that city. In one, that in the centre, is
the Marriage of Cana in Galilee, at which Christ performed the Miracle
of converting water into wine. In the second, on the right hand, is
Elisha the Prophet sweetening with meal the bitter pot, the food of
which, spoilt by colocynths, his prophets were not able to eat. And in
the third is S. Benedict, to whom a lay-brother announces at a time of
very great dearth, and at the very moment when his monks were lacking
food, that some camels laden with meal have arrived at his door, and he
sees that the Angels of God are miraculously bringing to him a vast
quantity of meal.

For Signora Gentilina, mother of Signor Chiappino and Signor Paolo
Vitelli, I painted in Florence and sent from there to Citta di Castello
a great altar-picture in which is the Coronation of Our Lady, on high a
Dance of Angels, and at the foot many figures larger than life; which
picture was placed in S. Francesco in that city. For the Church of
Poggio a Caiano, a villa of the Lord Duke, I painted in an altar-picture
the Dead Christ in the lap of His Mother, S. Cosimo and S. Damiano
contemplating Him, and in the air an Angel who, weeping, displays the
Mysteries of the Passion of Our Saviour; and in the Church of the
Carmine at Florence, in the Chapel of Matteo and Simon Botti, my very
dear friends, there was placed about this same time an altar-picture by
my hand wherein is Christ Crucified, with Our Lady, S. John and the
Magdalene weeping. Then I executed two great pictures for Jacopo
Capponi, for sending to France, in one of which is Spring and in the
other Autumn, with large figures and new inventions; and in another and
even larger picture a Dead Christ supported by two Angels, with God the
Father on high. To the Nuns of S. Maria Novella of Arezzo I sent
likewise in those days, or a little before, an altar-picture in which is
the Virgin receiving the Annunciation from the Angel, and at the sides
two Saints; and for the Nuns of Luco in the Mugello, of the Order of
Camaldoli, another altar-piece that is in the inner choir, containing
Christ Crucified, Our Lady, S. John, and Mary Magdalene. Fo