rstand anatomy and art; to which kind of men there often
happens that which befell him who, from his seeking to be in his speech
more Athenian than the Athenians, was recognized by a woman of the
people to be no Athenian. Taddeo also handled colours with much
delicacy, and he had great facility of manner, for he was much assisted
by nature; but at times he sought to make too much use of it. He was so
desirous of having something of his own, that he continued for a time to
accept any sort of work for the sake of gain; but for all that he
executed many, nay, innumerable works worthy of great praise. He kept a
number of assistants in order to finish his works, for the reason that
it is not possible to do otherwise. He was sanguine, hasty, and quick to
take offence, and, in addition, much given to the pleasures of love; but
nevertheless, although he was strongly inclined by nature to such
pleasures, he contrived to conduct his affairs with a certain degree of
decency, and very secretly. He was loving with his friends, and whenever
he could help them he never spared himself.

At his death he left the work in the Trinita not yet uncovered, and the
Great Hall in the Farnese Palace unfinished, and so also the works of
Caprarola, but nevertheless these all remained in the hands of his
brother Federigo, whom the patrons of the works are content to allow to
give them completion, as he will do; and, in truth, Federigo will be
heir to the talents of Taddeo no less than to his property. Taddeo was
given burial by Federigo in the Ritonda of Rome, near the tabernacle
where Raffaello da Urbino, his fellow-countryman, is buried; and
certainly they are well placed, one beside the other, for the reason
that even as Raffaello died at the age of thirty-seven and on the same
day that he was born, which was Good Friday, so Taddeo was born on the
first day of September, 1529, and died on the second day of the same
month in the year 1566. Federigo is minded, if it should be granted to
him, to restore the other tabernacle in the Ritonda, and to make some
memorial in that place to his loving brother, to whom he knows himself
to be deeply indebted.

Now, since mention has been made above of Jacopo Barozzi of Vignuola,
saying that after his architectural designs and directions the most
illustrious Cardinal Farnese has built his rich and even regal villa of
Caprarola, let me relate that the same Jacopo Barozzi of Vignuola, a
Bolognese painter and ar