ted of him. Nor will I omit to say that he has
wedded to such gifts a nature so amiable and gentle, that it renders
him well-beloved with everyone; wherefore he has won the honour of
being accepted into the number of the Academicians of Design in
Florence, together with Danese, Giuseppe Salviati, Tintoretto, and
Battista Farinato of Verona, as will be told in another place,
speaking of the said Academicians.

Bonifazio, a Venetian painter, of whom I have never before received
any information, is also worthy to be numbered in the company of these
many excellent craftsmen, being a well-practised and able colourist.
This master, besides many pictures and portraits that are dispersed
throughout Venice, has executed for the altar of the Relics in the
Church of the Servites, in the same city, an altar-piece wherein is a
Christ with the Apostles about Him, and Philip who appears to be
saying, "Domine, ostende nobis patrem," which is painted with a very
good and beautiful manner. And for the altar of the Madonna in the
Church of the Nuns of the Spirito Santo, he has executed another most
beautiful altar-picture with a vast number of men, women, and children
of every age, who in company with the Virgin are adoring a God the
Father who is in the air with many Angels about Him. Another painter
of passing good name in Venice is Jacopo Fallaro, who has painted on
the doors of the organ in the Church of the Ingesuati the Blessed
Giovanni Colombini receiving his habit in the Consistory from the
Pope, with a good number of Cardinals. Another Jacopo, called
Pisbolica, has executed an altar-piece for S. Maria Maggiore in
Venice, wherein is Christ in the air with many Angels, and below Him
Our Lady with the Apostles. And one Fabrizio Viniziano has painted on
the facade of a chapel in the Church of S. Maria Sebenico the
Consecration of the baptismal font, with many portraits from life
executed with beautiful grace and a good manner.

NOTES.

I., line 1, p. 187.

The family of the Tatti in Florence is recorded in the books of the
Commune from the year 1300, because, having come from Lucca, a very
noble city of Tuscany, it was always abundant in industrious and
honoured men, and they were most highly favoured by the House of
Medici. Of this family was born Jacopo, of whom we are writing in this
place; and he was born from Antonio, a most excellent person, and from
his wife Francesca, in the month of January, 1477. In the first years