ow have their Confessional.

Being summoned not long afterwards to Ancona by Giorgio Morato, he
painted for the Church of S. Agostino a large altar-piece in oils of
Christ baptized by S. John, with S. Paul and other Saints on one side,
and in the predella a good number of little figures, which are full of
grace. For the same man he made in the Church of S. Ciriaco sul Monte
a very beautiful ornament in stucco for the altar-piece of the
high-altar, and within it a Christ of five braccia in full-relief,
which was much extolled. In like manner, he has made in the same city
a very large and very beautiful ornament of stucco for the high-altar
of S. Domenico, and he would also have painted the altar-picture, but
he had a difference with the patron of that work, and it was given to
Tiziano Vecelli to execute, as will be related in the proper place.
Finally, having undertaken to decorate in the same city of Ancona the
Loggia de' Mercanti, which faces on one side over the sea-shore and on
the other towards the principal street of the city, Pellegrino has
adorned the vaulting, which is a new structure, with pictures and many
large figures in stucco; in which work since he has exerted all the
effort and study possible to him, it has turned out in truth full of
beauty and grace, for the reason that, besides that all the figures
are beautiful and well executed, there are some most lovely
foreshortenings of nudes, in which it is evident that he has imitated
with much diligence the works of Buonarroti that are in the Chapel in
Rome.

Now, since there are not in those parts any architects or engineers of
account, or any who know more than he does, Pellegrino has taken it
upon himself to give his attention to architecture and to the
fortifying of places in that province; and, as one who has recognized
that painting is more difficult and perhaps less advantageous than
architecture, setting his painting somewhat on one side, he has
executed many works for the fortification of Ancona and for many other
places in the States of the Church, and particularly at Ravenna.
Finally, he has made a beginning with a palace for the Sapienza, at
Pavia, for Cardinal Borromeo. And at the present day, since he has not
wholly abandoned painting, he is executing a scene in fresco, which
will be very beautiful, in the refectory of S. Giorgio at Ferrara, for
the Monks of Monte Oliveto; and of this Pellegrino himself not long
ago showed me the design, which