hambers that are in a line--a very beautiful frieze in
painting, with a scene full of figures on each wall, the scenes being a
very beautiful triumph of Bacchus, a Hunt, and others of that kind.
These much pleased the Cardinal, who caused him to paint, in addition,
in several parts of that frieze, the Unicorn in various forms in the lap
of a Virgin, which is the device of that most illustrious family. Which
work was the reason that that lord, who has ever been the friend of all
talented and distinguished men, always favoured him, and even more would
he have done it, if Daniello had not been so dilatory over his work; but
for that Daniello was not to blame, seeing that such was his nature and
genius, and he was content to do little well rather than much not so
well. Now, in addition to the affection that the Cardinal bore him,
Signor Annibale Caro worked on his behalf in such a manner with his
patrons, the Farnesi, that they always assisted him. And for Madama
Margherita of Austria, the daughter of Charles V, he painted in eight
spaces in the study of which mention has been made in the Life of
Indaco, in the Palace of the Medici on the Piazza Navona, eight little
stories of the actions and illustrious deeds of the above-named Emperor
Charles V, with such diligence and excellence, that it would be almost
impossible to do better in that kind of work.

In the year 1547 Perino del Vaga died, leaving unfinished the Hall of
Kings, which, as has been related, is in the Papal Palace, in front of
the Sistine and Pauline Chapels; and by the mediation of many friends
and lords, and in particular of Michelagnolo Buonarroti, Daniello was
set in his place by Pope Paul III, with the same salary that Perino had
received, and was commanded to make a beginning with the ornaments of
the walls that were to be executed in stucco, with many nudes in the
round over certain pediments. Now, since the walls of that Hall are
broken by six large doors in variegated marble, and only one wall is
left unbroken, Daniello made over each door what is almost a tabernacle
in stucco, of great beauty. In each of these he intended to execute in
painting one of those Kings who have defended the Apostolic Church, and
then to continue on the walls with stories of those Kings who have
benefited the Church with tributes or victories, so that in all there
were to be six stories and six niches. After those niches, or rather,
tabernacles, Daniello with the aid of many