, being minded to live and die in
Florence in the service of his most illustrious lords, in company with
Vasari and the other Academicians.

Another pupil of Vasari, likewise, and also an Academician, is Jacopo di
Maestro Piero Zucca, a young Florentine of twenty-five or twenty-six
years, who, having assisted Vasari to execute the greater part of the
works in the Palace, and in particular the ceiling of the Great Hall,
has made so much proficience in design and in the handling of colours,
labouring with much industry, study, and assiduity, that he can now be
numbered among the first of the young painters in our Academy. And the
works that he has done by himself alone in the obsequies of
Michelagnolo, in the nuptials of the most illustrious Lord Prince, and
at other times for various friends, in which he has shown intelligence,
boldness, diligence, grace, and good judgment, have made him known as a
gifted youth and an able painter; but even more will those make him
known that may be expected from him in the future, doing as much honour
to his country as has been done to her by any painter at any time.

In like manner, among other young painters of the Academy, Santi Titi
may be called ingenious and able, who, as has been told in other places,
after having practised for many years in Rome, has returned finally to
enjoy Florence, which he regards as his country, although his elders are
of Borgo a San Sepolcro and of a passing good family in that city. This
Santi acquitted himself truly excellently in the works that he executed
for the obsequies of Buonarroti and the above-mentioned nuptials of the
most illustrious Princess, but even more, after great and almost
incredible labours, in the scenes that he painted in the theatre which
he made for the same nuptials on the Piazza di S. Lorenzo, for the most
illustrious Lord Paolo Giordano Orsino, Duke of Bracciano; wherein he
painted in chiaroscuro, on several immense pieces of canvas, stories of
the actions of various illustrious men of the Orsini family. But how
able he is can be perceived best from two altar-pieces by his hand that
are to be seen, one of which is in Ognissanti, or rather, S. Salvadore
di Fiorenza (as it is now called), once the church of the Padri
Umiliati, and now of the Zoccolanti, and contains the Madonna on high
and at the foot S. John, S. Jerome, and other Saints; and in the other,
which is in S. Giuseppe, behind S. Croce, in the Chapel of the Guardi,
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