e, and always
working at something. During that time he completed a great choir-book
with delicate illuminations and most beautiful borderings, making in
it, among other things, a Christ appearing to the Magdalene in the
form of a gardener, which was held to be a rare thing. Wherefore,
growing in courage, he depicted--but in figures much larger--the
Adulterous Woman accused by the Jews before Christ, with a good number
of figures; all which he copied from a picture that had been executed
in those days by Tiziano Vecelli, that most excellent painter.

Not long afterwards it happened that Don Giulio, in transferring
himself from one monastery to another, as monks or friars do, by
misfortune broke a leg. Being therefore conveyed by those fathers to
the Monastery of Candiana, that he might be better attended, he lay
there some time without recovering, perhaps having been wrongly
treated, as is common, no less by the fathers than by the physicians.
Which hearing, Cardinal Grimani, who much loved him for his
excellence, obtained from the Pope the power to keep him in his
service and to have him cured. Whereupon Don Giulio, having thrown off
the habit, and his leg being healed, went to Perugia with the
Cardinal, who was Legate there; and, setting to work, he executed for
him in miniature these works; an Office of Our Lady, with four most
beautiful stories, and in an Epistolar three large stories of S. Paul
the Apostle, one of which was sent not long afterwards to Spain. He
also made for him a very beautiful Pieta, and a Christ Crucified,
which after the death of Grimani came into the hands of Messer
Giovanni Gaddi, Clerk of the Chamber.

All these works caused Don Giulio to become known in Rome as an
excellent craftsman, and were the reason that Cardinal Alessandro
Farnese, who has always assisted, favoured, and desired to have about
him rare and gifted men, having heard his fame and seen his works,
took him into his service, in which he has remained ever since and
still remains, old as he is. For that lord, I say, he has executed an
infinite number of the rarest miniatures, of which I shall mention
here only a part, because to mention them all is almost impossible. In
a little picture he has painted Our Lady with her Son in her arms,
with many Saints and figures around, and Pope Paul III kneeling,
portrayed from life so well, that for all the smallness of that
miniature he seems as if alive; and all the other figures, likew