cutors of his will in those matters, and leaving
them two hundred crowns for the purpose. Which last wishes of Daniello's
the two of them executed with diligence and love, giving him honourable
burial in that place, according as he had directed. To the same men he
left all his property pertaining to art, moulds in gesso, models,
designs, and all the other materials and implements of his work;
wherefore they offered themselves to the Ambassador of France, saying
that they would deliver completely finished, within a fixed time, the
work of the horse and the figure of the King that was to go upon it.
And, in truth, both of them having practised many years under the
instruction and discipline of Daniello, the greatest things may be
expected from them.

Disciples of Daniello, likewise, have been Biagio da Carigliano of
Pistoia, and Giovan Paolo Rossetti of Volterra, who is a very diligent
person and of most beautiful genius; which Giovan Paolo, having retired
to Volterra many years ago, has executed, as he still does, works worthy
of much praise. Another who also worked with Daniello, and made much
proficience, was Marco da Siena, who, having made his way to Naples and
chosen that city as his home, lives there and is constantly at work. And
Giulio Mazzoni of Piacenza has likewise been a disciple of Daniello;
which Giulio received his first instruction from Vasari, when Giorgio
was executing in Florence an altar-piece for M. Biagio Mei, which was
sent to Lucca and placed in S. Piero Cigoli, and when the same Giorgio
was painting the altar-piece of the high-altar and a great work in the
refectory of Monte Oliveto at Naples, besides the Sacristy of S.
Giovanni Carbonaro and the doors of the organ in the Piscopio, with
other altar-pieces and pictures. Giulio, having afterwards learned from
Daniello to work in stucco, in which he equalled his master, has adorned
with his own hand all the interior of the Palace of Cardinal
Capodiferro, executing there marvellous works not only in stucco, but
also of scenes in fresco and in oils, which have won him infinite
praise, and that rightly. The same master has made a head of Francesco
del Nero in marble, copying it so well from the life, that I do not
believe that it is possible to do better; wherefore it may be hoped that
he is destined to achieve a very fine result, and to attain to the
greatest excellence and perfection that a man can reach in these our
arts.

Daniello was an orderly