a portrait of the Blessed Jacopo
Filippo of Piacenza.

Afterwards, being summoned to Rome, he painted a scene in the Chapel of
Pope Sixtus, in company with Luca da Cortona and Pietro Perugino. On
returning to Arezzo, he painted a S. Jerome in Penitence in the Chapel
of the Gozzari in the Vescovado; and this figure, lean and shaven, with
the eyes fixed most intently on the Crucifix, and beating his breast,
shows very clearly how greatly the passions of love can disturb the
chastity even of a body so grievously wasted away. In this work he made
an enormous crag, with certain cliffs of rock, among the fissures of
which he painted some stories of that Saint, with very graceful little
figures. After this, in a chapel in S. Agostino, for the Nuns of the
Third Order, as they are called, he wrought in fresco a Coronation of
Our Lady, which is very well done and much extolled; and below this, in
another chapel, a large panel with an Assumption and certain angels
beautifully robed in delicate draperies. This panel, for a work made in
distemper, is much extolled, and in truth it was wrought with good
design and executed with extraordinary diligence. In the lunette that is
over the door of the Church of S. Donato, in the Fortress of Arezzo,
the same man painted in fresco a Madonna with the Child in her arms, S.
Donatus, and S. Giovanni Gualberto, all very beautiful figures. In the
Abbey of S. Fiore in the said city, beside the principal door of
entrance into the church, there is a chapel painted by his hand, wherein
are S. Benedict and other saints, wrought with much grace, good
handling, and sweetness.

For Gentile of Urbino, Bishop of Arezzo, who was much his friend, and
with whom he almost always lived, he painted a Dead Christ in a chapel
in the Palace of the Vescovado; and in a loggia he portrayed the Bishop
himself, his vicar, and Ser Matteo Francini, his court-notary, who is
reading a Bull to him; and there he also made his own portrait and those
of certain canons of that city. For the same Bishop he designed a loggia
which issues from the Palace and leads to the Vescovado, on the same
level with both. In the centre of this the Bishop had intended to make a
place of burial for himself in the form of a chapel, in which he wished
to be interred after his death; and he had carried it well on, when he
was overtaken by death, and it remained unfinished, for, although he
left orders that it should be completed by his successor,