he had presented a Canonicate to Rosso.

Rosso died in the year 1541, leaving great regrets behind him among his
friends and brother-craftsmen, who have learned by his example what
benefits may accrue from a prince to one who is eminent in every field
of art, and well-mannered and gentle in all his actions, as was that
master, who for many reasons deserved, and still deserves, to be admired
as one truly most excellent.

BARTOLOMMEO DA BAGNACAVALLO AND OTHERS

LIVES OF BARTOLOMMEO DA BAGNACAVALLO, AND OTHER PAINTERS OF ROMAGNA

It is certain that the result of emulation in the arts, caused by a
desire for glory, proves for the most part to be one worthy of praise;
but when it happens that the aspirant, through presumption and
arrogance, comes to hold an inflated opinion of himself, in course of
time the name for excellence that he seeks may be seen to dissolve into
mist and smoke, for the reason that there is no advance to perfection
possible for him who knows not his own failings and has no fear of the
work of others. More readily does hope mount towards proficience for
those modest and studious spirits who, leading an upright life, honour
the works of rare masters and imitate them with all diligence, than for
those who have their heads full of smoky pride, as had Bartolommeo da
Bagnacavallo, Amico of Bologna, Girolamo da Cotignola, and Innocenzio da
Imola, painters all, who, living in Bologna at one and the same time,
felt the greatest jealousy of one another that could possibly be
imagined. And, what is more, their pride and vainglory, not being based
on the foundation of ability, led them astray from the true path, which
brings to immortality those who strive more from love of good work than
from rivalry. This circumstance, then, was the reason that they did not
crown the good beginnings that they had made with that final excellence
which they expected; for their presuming to the name of masters turned
them too far aside from the good way.

Bartolommeo da Bagnacavallo had come to Rome in the time of Raffaello,
in order to attain with his works to that perfection which he believed
himself to be already grasping with his intellect. And being a young man
who had some fame at Bologna and had awakened expectations, he was set
to execute a work in the Church of the Pace at Rome, in the first chapel
on the right hand as one enters the church, above the chapel of
Baldassarre Peruzzi of Siena. But, thinking