nd when Leo X commissioned Raffaello to
paint the Loggie, Pellegrino also worked there, in company with the
other young men; and so well did he succeed, that Raffaello afterwards
made use of him in many other things.

He executed three figures in fresco in S. Eustachio at Rome, over an
altar near the entrance into the church; and in the Church of the
Portuguese, near the Scrofa, he painted in fresco the Chapel of the
High-Altar, as well as the altar-piece. Afterwards, Cardinal Alborense
having caused a chapel richly adorned with marbles to be erected in S.
Jacopo, the Church of the Spanish people, with a S. James of marble by
Jacopo Sansovino, four braccia and a half in height, and much extolled,
Pellegrino painted there in fresco the stories of that Apostle, giving
an air of great sweetness to his figures in imitation of his master
Raffaello, and designing the whole composition so well, that the work
made him known as an able man with a fine and beautiful genius for
painting. This work finished, he made many others in Rome, both by
himself and in company with others.

[Illustration: THE LAST SUPPER

(_After the fresco by =Gaudenzio Milanese [Gaudenzio Ferrari]=. Milan:
S. Maria della Passione_)

_Anderson_]

But finally, when death had come upon Raffaello, Pellegrino returned to
Modena, where he executed many works; among others, he painted for a
Confraternity of Flagellants a panel-picture in oils of S. John
baptizing Christ, and another panel for the Church of the Servi,
containing S. Cosimo and S. Damiano, with other figures. Afterwards,
having taken a wife, he had a son, who was the cause of his death. For
this son, having come to words with some companions, young men of
Modena, killed one of them; the news of which being carried to
Pellegrino, he, in order to help his son from falling into the hands of
justice, set out to smuggle him away. But he had not gone far from his
house, when he stumbled against the relatives of the dead youth, who
were going about searching for the murderer; and they, confronting
Pellegrino, who had no time to escape, and full of fury because they had
not been able to catch his son, gave him so many wounds that they left
him dead on the ground. This event was a great grief to the people of
Modena, who knew that by the death of Pellegrino they had been robbed of
a spirit truly excellent and rare.

A contemporary of this craftsman was the Milanese Gaudenzio, a resolute,
well-practis