nely that he well deserved to be paid more than a thousand crowns for
the work. He was much beloved for his talents by the Dukes of Ferrara,
and, in addition to other favours and many gifts, he obtained through
their good offices two Canonicates in the Duomo of Udine for two of his
relatives.

Among his pupils, of whom he had many, making much use of them and
rewarding them liberally, was one of Greek nationality, a man of no
little ability, who had a very beautiful manner and imitated Pellegrino
closely. But Luca Monverde of Udine, who was much beloved by Pellegrino,
would have been superior to the Greek, if he had not been snatched from
the world prematurely when still a mere lad; although one work by his
hand was left on the high-altar of S. Maria delle Grazie in Udine, a
panel-picture in oils, his first and last, in which, in a recess in
perspective, there is a Madonna seated on high with the Child in her
arms, painted by him with a soft gradation of shadow, while on the level
surface below there are two figures on either side, so beautiful that
they show that if he had lived longer he would have become truly
excellent.

Another disciple of the same Pellegrino was Bastianello Florigorio, who
painted a panel-picture that is over the high-altar of S. Giorgio in
Udine, of a Madonna in the sky surrounded by an endless number of little
angels in various attitudes, all adoring the Child that she holds in her
arms; while below there is a very well executed landscape. There is also
a very beautiful S. John, and a S. George in armour and on horseback,
who, foreshortened in a spirited attitude, is slaying the Dragon with
his lance; while the Maiden, who is there on one side, appears to be
thanking God and the glorious Virgin for the succour sent to her. In the
head of the S. George Bastianello is said to have made his own portrait.
He also painted two pictures in fresco in the Refectory of the Friars of
S. Pietro Martire: in one is Christ seated at table with the two
disciples at Emmaus, and breaking the bread with a benediction, and in
the other is the death of S. Peter Martyr. The same master painted in
fresco in a niche on a corner of the Palace of M. Marguando, an
excellent physician, a nude man in foreshortening, representing a S.
John, which is held to be a good painting. Finally, he was forced
through some dispute to depart from Udine, for the sake of peace, and to
live like an exile in Civitale.

Bastianello had a