many stories of that Saint, which to-day are covered with whitewash. In
the Church of S. Domenico, likewise, he painted the Chapel of S.
Cristofano, portraying there from nature the Blessed Masuolo, who is
liberating from prison a merchant of the Fei family, who caused that
chapel to be built; which Blessed Masuolo, as prophet, predicted many
misadventures to the Aretines in his lifetime. In the Church of S.
Agostino, in the chapel and on the altar of the Nardi, he painted in
fresco some stories of S. Laurence, with marvellous manner and
execution.

[Illustration: TABERNACLE

(_After_ Jacopo di Casentino. _Florence: Arte della Lana_)

_Brogi_]

And because he exercised himself also in the things of architecture, by
order of the sixty aforesaid citizens he reconducted under the walls of
Arezzo the water that comes from the foot of the hill of Pori, three
hundred braccia distant from the city. This water, in the time of the
Romans, had been brought first to the theatre, whereof the remains are
still there, and from that theatre, which was on the hill where to-day
there is the fortress, to the amphitheatre of the same city, on the
plain; but these edifices and conduits were wholly ruined and spoilt by
the Goths. Jacopo, then, as it has been said, having brought this
water below the walls, made the fountain which was then called the Fonte
Guizianelli, and which is now named, by the corruption of the word, the
Fonte Viniziana; this work endured from that time, which was the year
1354, up to the year 1527, and no more, for the reason that the plague
of that year, the war that came afterwards, the fact that many
intercepted the water at their own convenience for the use of their
gardens, and still more the fact that Jacopo did not sink it, brought it
about that to-day it is not, as it should be, standing.

The while that the aqueduct was going on being built, Jacopo, not
leaving aside his painting, wrought many scenes from the acts of Bishop
Guido and Piero Sacconi in the palace that was in the old citadel, now
in ruins; for these men, both in peace and in war, had done great and
honourable deeds for that city. In the Pieve, likewise, below the organ,
he wrought the story of S. Matthew and many other works. And so, making
works with his own hand throughout the whole city, he showed to Spinello
Aretino the principles of that art which was taught to him by Agnolo,
and which Spinello taught afterwards to Bernardo Daddi, wh