ch is now
made manifest in him.

In those same times the Duke of Guise, who was then in Rome, desiring to
take an able and practised painter to paint his Palace in France, Taddeo
was proposed to him; whereupon, having seen some of his works, and
liking his manner, he agreed to give him a salary of six hundred crowns
a year, on condition that Taddeo, after finishing the work that he had
in hand, should go to France to serve him. And so Taddeo would have
done, the money for his preparations having been deposited in a bank, if
it had not been for the wars that broke out in France at that time, and
shortly afterwards the death of that Duke. Taddeo then went back to
finish the work for Frangipane in S. Marcello, but he was not able to
work for long without being interrupted, for, the Emperor Charles V
having died, preparations were made for giving him most honourable
obsequies in Rome, fit for an Emperor of the Romans, and to Taddeo were
allotted many scenes from the life of that Emperor, and also many
trophies and other ornaments, which were made by him of pasteboard in a
very sumptuous and magnificent manner; and he finished the whole in
twenty-five days. For his labours, therefore, and those of Federigo and
others who had assisted him, six hundred crowns of gold were paid to
him.

Shortly afterwards he painted two great chambers at Bracciano for Signor
Paolo Giordano Orsini, which were very beautiful and richly adorned with
stucco-work and gold; in one the stories of Cupid and Psyche, and in the
second, which had been begun previously by others, some stories of
Alexander the Great; and others that remained for him to paint,
continuing the history of the same Alexander, he caused to be executed
by his brother Federigo, who acquitted himself very well. And then he
painted in fresco for M. Stefano del Bufalo, in his garden near the
fountain of Trevi, the Muses around the Castalian Fount and Mount
Parnassus, which was held to be a beautiful work.

The Wardens of Works of the Madonna of Orvieto, as has been related in
the Life of Simone Mosca, had caused some chapels with ornaments of
marble and stucco to be built in the aisles of their church, and had
also had some altar-pieces executed by Girolamo Mosciano of Brescia;
and, having heard the fame of Taddeo by means of friends, they sent a
summons to him, and he went to Orvieto, taking with him Federigo. There,
settling to work, he executed two great figures on the wall of o