lo; the most illustrious
Marc'Antonio Grimani, likewise placed in the Church of S. Sebastiano;
and in S. Gimignano, the rector of that church. He has also portrayed
Messer Andrea Loredano. M. Priano da Lagie, and two brothers of the
Pellegrini family--M. Vincenzio and M. Giovan Battista--both orators.
And since Vittoria is young and a willing worker, talented, amiable,
desirous of acquiring name and fame, and, lastly, very gentle, we may
believe that if he lives, we are destined to see most beautiful works
come from him from day to day, worthy of his name of Vittoria, and
that, if his life endures, he is like to be a most excellent sculptor
and to win the palm from all the others of that country.

There is also one Tommaso da Lugano, a sculptor, who likewise has been
many years with Sansovino, and has made with the chisel many figures
in the Library of S. Marco, very beautiful, in company with others.
And then, having left Sansovino, he has made by himself a Madonna with
the Child in her arms, and at her feet a little S. John, which are all
three figures of such beautiful form, attitude, and manner, that they
can stand among all the other beautiful modern statues that are in
Venice; which work is placed in the Church of S. Bastiano. And a
portrait of the Emperor Charles V, which he made from the breast
upwards, of marble, has been held to be a marvellous thing, and was
very dear to his Majesty. And since Tommaso has delighted to work
rather in stucco than in marble or bronze, there are innumerable most
beautiful figures by his hand and works executed by him in that
material in the houses of various gentlemen of Venice. But it must
suffice to have said this much of him.

Of the Lombards, finally, it remains for us to make record of Jacopo
Bresciano, a young man of twenty-four, who has not long parted from
Sansovino. He has given proof at Venice, in the many years that he has
been there, of being talented and likely to prove excellent, as he has
since shown in the works that he has executed in his native Brescia,
and particularly in the Palazzo Pubblico, and if he lives and
studies, there will be seen from his hand, also, things greater and
better, for he has a fine spirit and most beautiful gifts.

Of our Tuscans, one of the disciples of Sansovino has been the
Florentine Bartolommeo Ammanati, of whom record has already been made
in many places in this work. This Bartolommeo, I say, worked under
Sansovino in Venice; an