hout effort.
Battista has painted in an altar-picture in oils that is in a chapel of
the Black Friars' Abbey of Florence, a Christ who is bearing the Cross,
in which work are many good figures; and he has other works constantly
in hand, which will make him known as an able man.

Not inferior to any of these named above in talent, art, and merit, is
Maso Manzuoli, called Maso da San Friano, a young man of about thirty or
thirty-two years, who had his first principles from Pier Francesco di
Jacopo di Sandro, one of our Academicians, of whom we have spoken in
another place. This Maso, I say, besides having shown how much he knows
and how much may be expected of him in many pictures and smaller
paintings, has demonstrated this recently in two altar-pictures with
much honour to himself and full satisfaction to everyone, having
displayed in them invention, design, manner, grace, and unity in the
colouring. In one of these altar-pieces, which is in the Church of S.
Apostolo at Florence, is the Nativity of Jesus Christ, and in the other,
which is placed in the Church of S. Pietro Maggiore, and is as beautiful
as an old and well-practised master could have made it, is the
Visitation of Our Lady to S. Elizabeth, executed with judgment and with
many fine considerations, insomuch that the heads, the draperies, the
attitudes, the buildings, and all the other parts are full of loveliness
and grace. This man acquitted himself with no ordinary excellence in the
obsequies of Buonarroti, as an Academician and very loving, and then in
some scenes for the nuptials of Queen Joanna.

Now, since not only in the Life of Ridolfo Ghirlandajo I have spoken of
his disciple Michele and of Carlo da Loro, but also in other places, I
shall say nothing more of them here, although they are of our Academy,
enough having been said of them. But I will not omit to tell that other
disciples and pupils of Ghirlandajo have been Andrea del Minga, likewise
one of our Academicians, who has executed many works, as he still does;
Girolamo di Francesco Crocifissaio, a young man of twenty-six, and
Mirabello di Salincorno, both painters, who have done and continue to do
such works of painting in oils and in fresco, and also portraits, that a
most honourable result may be expected from them. These two executed
together, now several years ago, some pictures in fresco in the Church
of the Capuchins without Florence, which are passing good; and in the
obsequies of Michel