as a painter and with the
best order and method that I have been able, and, as for language, in
that which I speak, whether it be Florentine or Tuscan, and in the most
easy and facile manner at my command, leaving the long and ornate
periods, choice words, and other ornaments of learned speech and
writing, to such as have not, as I have, a hand rather for brushes than
for the pen, and a head rather for designs than for writing. And if I
have scattered throughout the work many terms peculiar to our arts, of
which perchance it has not occurred to the brightest and greatest lights
of our language to avail themselves, I have done this because I could do
no less and in order to be understood by you, my craftsmen, for whom,
chiefly, as I have said, I set myself to this labour. For the rest,
then, I having done all that I have been able, accept it willingly, and
expect not from me what I know not and what is not in my power;
satisfying yourselves of my good intention, which is and ever will be to
benefit and please others.

DIE 25 AUGUSTI, 1567.

CONCEDIMUS LICENTIAM ET FACULTATEM IMPUNE ET SINE ULLO PRAEJUDICIO
IMPRIMENDI FLORENTIAE VITAS PICTORUM, SCULPTORUM, ET
ARCHITECTORUM, TANQUAM A FIDE ET RELIGIONE NULLO PACTO ALIENAS,
SED POTIUS VALDE CONSONAS. IN QUORUM FIDEM ETC.

GUIDO SERVIDIUS, PRAEPOSITUS ET VICARIUS GENERALIS FLORENT.

INDEX OF NAMES

OF THE CRAFTSMEN MENTIONED IN VOLUME X

Academicians, The, 37-167

Agnolo, Baccio d', 23

Agnolo Bronzino, _Life_, 3-12. 3-14, 219

Alberti, Leon Batista, 40

Alessandro Allori (Alessandro del Bronzino), 12, 13

Alessandro del Barbiere (Alessandro di Vincenzio Fei), 20

Alessandro del Bronzino (Alessandro Allori), 12, 13

Alessandro di Vincenzio Fei (Alessandro del Barbiere), 20

Alessandro Fortori, 20

Alessandro Vittoria, 20

Allori, Alessandro (Alessandro del Bronzino), 12, 13

Altissimo, Cristofano dell', 13, 14

Ammanati, Bartolommeo, 23, 206

Andrea Calamech, 23

Andrea del Minga, 15

Andrea del Sarto, 47, 172

Andrea Palladio, 20

Andrea Verrocchio, 47

Antonio da Correggio, 187

Antonio da San Gallo (the younger), 47

Antonio di Gino Lorenzi, 30

Apelles, 47, 200

Bacchiacca, Il (Francesco Ubertini), 8

Baccio Bandinelli, 23, 24, 31, 176, 210, 214

Baccio d'Agnolo, 23

Bagnacavallo, Giovan Battista da, 196

Baldassarre Lancia, 33

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