wo figures, half covered with
draperies and half naked, kneeling with their crosses on the ground,
while in the sky are some little angels with palms in their hands. This
work, which was painted with much diligence, and executed with good
judgment in the colouring and in the heads, which are very lifelike, was
placed in the above-mentioned Camaldolite Church; but that monastery was
taken on account of the siege of Florence from those Eremite Fathers,
who used devoutly to celebrate the Divine offices in the church, and was
afterwards given to the Nuns of S. Giovannino, of the Order of the
Knights of Jerusalem, and finally destroyed; and the picture, being one
which may be numbered among the best works that Sogliani painted, was
placed by order of the Lord Duke Cosimo in one of the chapels of the
Medici family in S. Lorenzo.

The same master executed for the Nuns of the Crocetta a Last Supper
coloured in oils, which was much extolled at that time. And in a shrine
in the Via de' Ginori, he painted in fresco for Taddeo Taddei a Crucifix
with Our Lady and S. John at the foot, and in the sky some angels
lamenting Christ, very lifelike--a picture truly worthy of praise, and a
well-executed example of work in fresco. By the hand of Sogliani, also,
is a Crucifix in the Refectory of the Abbey of the Black Friars in
Florence, with angels flying about and weeping with much grace; and at
the foot the Madonna, S. John, S. Benedict, S. Scholastica, and other
figures. For the Nuns of the Spirito Santo, on the hill of San Giorgio,
he painted two pictures that are in their church, one of S. Francis, and
the other of S. Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary and a sister of that Order.
For the Company of the Ceppo he painted the banner for carrying in
processions, which is very beautiful, representing on the front of it
the Visitation of Our Lady, and on the other side S. Niccolo the Bishop,
with two children dressed as Flagellants, one of whom holds his book and
the other the three balls of gold. On a panel in S. Jacopo sopra Arno he
painted the Trinity, with an endless number of little boys, S. Mary
Magdalene kneeling, S. Catherine, S. James, and two figures in fresco
standing at the sides, S. Jerome in Penitence and S. John; and in the
predella he made his assistant, Sandrino del Calzolaio, execute three
scenes, which won no little praise.

On the end wall of the Oratory of a Company in the township of Anghiari,
he executed on panel a Last Suppe