Maria della
Misericordia, Parri painted a Madonna who has under her mantle the
people of Arezzo, wherein he portrayed from the life those who then
ruled that holy place, clothed according to the use of those times; and
among them one called Braccio, who is now called, when there is talk of
him, Lazzaro Ricco, and who died in the year 1422, leaving all his
riches and means to that place, which dispenses them in the service of
God's poor, performing the holy works of mercy with much charity. On one
side of this Madonna is S. Gregory the Pope, and on the other S.
Donatus, Bishop and Protector of the people of Arezzo. And since those
who then ruled that Fraternity had been very well served in this work by
Parri, they caused him to make on a panel, in distemper, a Madonna with
the Child in her arms, with some angels who are opening her mantle,
beneath which is the said people; with S. Laurentino and S. Pergentino,
the martyrs, below. This panel is brought out every year on the second
day of June, and, after it has been borne in solemn procession by the
men of the said Company as far as the church of the said Saints, there
is placed over it a coffer of silver, wrought by the goldsmith Forzore,
brother of Parri, within which are the bodies of the said SS. Laurentino
and Pergentino; it is brought out, I say, and the said altar is made
under covering of a tent in the Canto alla Croce, where the said church
stands, because, being a small church, it would not hold all the people
who assemble for this festival. The predella whereon the said panel
rests contains the martyrdom of those two Saints, made with little
figures, and so well wrought, that for a small work it is truly a
marvel. In Borgo Piano, under the projection of a house, there is a
shrine by the hand of Parri, within which is an Annunciation in fresco,
which is much extolled; and in S. Agostino, for the Company of the
Puraccioli, he made in fresco a very beautiful picture of S. Catherine,
virgin and martyr. In the Church of Muriello, likewise, for the
Fraternity of the Clerks, he painted a S. Mary Magdalene, three braccia
high; and in S. Domenico, at the entrance of the door, where the
bell-ropes are, he painted in fresco the Chapel of S. Niccolo, making
therein a large Crucifix with four figures, so well wrought that it
seems made only yesterday. In the arch he painted two stories of S.
Nicholas--namely, his throwing the golden balls to the maidens, and his
delivering t