that he
would bring into his house, together with the wife, a thousand vexatious
cares and annoyances), could never make up his mind to it. Nay,
attending to his work in the Trinita, he proceeded to make the cartoon
of the principal wall, on which there was going the Ascension of Our
Lady into Heaven; while Federigo painted a picture of S. Peter in Prison
for the Lord Duke of Urbino; another, wherein is a Madonna in Heaven
with some Angels about her, which was to be sent to Milan; and a third
with a figure of Opportunity, which was sent to Perugia.

The Cardinal of Ferrara had kept many painters and masters in stucco at
work at the very beautiful villa that he has at Tivoli, and finally he
sent Federigo there to paint two rooms, one of which is dedicated to
Nobility, and the other to Glory; in which Federigo acquitted himself
very well, executing there beautiful and fantastic inventions. That
finished, he returned to the work of the above-mentioned chapel in Rome,
which he has carried to completion, painting in it a choir of many
Angels and various Glories, with God the Father sending down the Holy
Spirit upon the Madonna, who is receiving the Annunciation from the
Angel Gabriel, while about her are six Prophets, larger than life and
very beautiful. Taddeo, meanwhile, continuing to paint the Assumption of
the Madonna in fresco in the Trinita, appeared to be driven by nature to
do in that work, as his last, the utmost in his power. And in truth it
proved to be his last, for, having fallen ill of a sickness which at
first appeared to be slight enough, and caused by the great heat that
there was that year, and which afterwards became very grave, he died in
the month of September in the year 1566; having first, like a good
Christian, received the Sacraments of the Church, and seen the greater
part of his friends, and leaving in his place his brother Federigo, who
was also ill at that time. And so in a short time, Buonarroti, Salviati,
Daniello, and Taddeo having been taken from the world, our arts have
suffered a very great loss, and particularly the art of painting.

Taddeo was very bold in his work, and had a manner passing soft and
pastose, and very far removed from the hardness often seen. He was very
abundant in his compositions, and he made his heads, hands, and nudes
very beautiful, keeping them free of the many crudities over which
certain painters labour beyond all reason, in order to make it appear
that they unde