said of him in the description of the works of Jacopo
Sansovino, there is no need to speak further here. But I will record
that disciples of his, and also Academicians, are Andrea Calamech of
Carrara, a well-practised sculptor, who executed many figures under
Ammanati, and was invited to Messina after the death of the above-named
Martino to take the position which Fra Giovanni Agnolo had once held, in
which place he died; and Battista di Benedetto, a young man who has
given promise of becoming, as he will, an excellent master, having
demonstrated already by many works that he is not inferior to the
above-named Andrea or to any other of the young sculptors of our
Academy, in beauty of genius and judgment.

Vincenzio de' Rossi of Fiesole, likewise a sculptor, architect, and
Academician of Florence, is worthy to have some record made of him in
this place, in addition to what has been said of him in the Life of
Baccio Bandinelli, whose disciple he was. After he had taken leave of
Baccio, then, he gave a great proof of his powers in Rome, although he
was young enough, in the statue that he made for the Ritonda, of a S.
Joseph with Christ as a boy of ten years, both figures wrought with good
mastery and a beautiful manner. He then executed two tombs in the Church
of S. Maria della Pace, with the effigies of those who are within them
on the sarcophagi, and on the front without some Prophets of marble in
half-relief and large as life, which acquired for him the name of an
excellent sculptor. Whereupon there was allotted to him by the Roman
people the statue of Pope Paul IV, which was placed on the Campidoglio;
and he executed it excellently well. But that work had a short life,
for the reason that after the death of the Pope it was thrown to the
ground and destroyed by the populace, which persecutes fiercely one day
the very men whom it has exalted to the heavens the day before. After
that figure Vincenzio made from one block of marble two statues a little
larger than life, a Theseus, King of Athens, who has carried off Helen
and holds her in his arms in the act of knowing her, with a Troy beneath
his feet; than which figures it is not possible to make any with more
diligence, study, labour, and grace. Wherefore when Duke Cosimo de'
Medici, having journeyed to Rome, and going to see the modern works
worthy to be seen no less than the antiques, saw those statues,
Vincenzio himself showing them to him, he extolled them very highl