e year 1551, and was buried in the Church of the Servites. In
our book are some drawings by the hand of Aristotile, and there are some
in the possession of Antonio Particini; among which are some very
beautiful sheets drawn in perspective.

There lived in the same times as Aristotile, and were his friends, two
painters of whom I shall make brief mention here, because they were such
that they deserve to have a place among these rare intellects, on
account of some works executed by them that were truly worthy to be
extolled. One was Jacone, and the other Francesco Ubertini, called Il
Bacchiacca. Jacone, then, did not execute many works, being one who lost
himself in talking and jesting, and contented himself with the little
that his fortune and his idleness allowed him, which was much less than
what he required. But, since he was closely associated with Andrea del
Sarto, he drew very well and with great boldness; and he was very
fantastic and bizarre in the posing of his figures, distorting them and
seeking to make them varied and different from those of others in all
his compositions. In truth, he had no little design, and when he chose
he could imitate the good. In Florence, when still young, he executed
many pictures of Our Lady, many of which were sent by Florentine
merchants into France. For S. Lucia, in the Via de' Bardi, he painted in
an altar-piece God the Father, Christ, and Our Lady, with other figures,
and at Montici, about a tabernacle on the corner of the house of
Lodovico Capponi, he executed two figures in chiaroscuro. For S. Romeo,
in an altar-piece, he painted Our Lady and two Saints.

Then, hearing once much praise spoken of the facades executed by
Polidoro and Maturino at Rome, without anyone knowing about it he went
off to that city, where he stayed some months and made some copies,
gaining such proficience in matters of art, that he afterwards proved
himself in many works a passing good painter. Wherefore the Chevalier
Buondelmonte commissioned him to paint in chiaroscuro a house that he
had built opposite to S. Trinita, at the beginning of the Borgo S.
Apostolo; wherein Jacone painted stories from the life of Alexander the
Great, very beautiful in certain parts, and executed with so much grace
and design, that many believe that the designs for the whole work were
made for him by Andrea del Sarto. To tell the truth, from the proof of
his powers that Jacone gave in that work, it was thought that he was