the Church of the Servi. In the Pieve of Montepulciano he
executed a predella with little figures, and at Castiglione Aretino he
painted a panel in distemper in S. Francesco; together with many other
works, which, for the sake of brevity, I refrain from describing, more
particularly many chests that are in the houses of citizens, which he
painted with little figures. In the Palace of the Guelphs in Florence,
among the ancient arms, there may be seen some caparisons wrought very
well by him. He also painted a banner for the Company of S. Sebastiano,
containing the said Saint at the column, with certain angels crowning
him; but it is now spoilt and all eaten away by time.

In Lazzaro's time there was one who made glass windows in Arezzo,
Fabiano Sassoli, a young Aretine of great excellence in that profession,
as is proved by those of his works that are in the Vescovado, the Abbey,
the Pieve, and other places in that city; but he knew little of design,
and he was very far from reaching the excellence of those that Parri
Spinelli made. Wherefore he determined that, even as he knew well how to
fire, to put together, and to mount the glass, so he would make some
work that should also be passing good with regard to the painting; and
he caused Lazzaro to execute for him two cartoons of his own invention,
in order to make two windows for the Madonna delle Grazie. Having
obtained these from Lazzaro, who was his friend and a courteous
craftsman, he made the said windows, which turned out so beautiful and
so well wrought that there are not many to which they have to give
precedence. In one there is a very beautiful Madonna; and in the other,
which is by far the better of the two, there is the Resurrection of
Christ, with an armed man in foreshortening in front of the Sepulchre;
and it is a marvel, considering the small size of the window and
consequently of the picture, how those figures can appear so large in so
small a space. Many other things could I tell of Lazzaro, who was a very
good draughtsman, as may be seen from certain drawings in our book; but
I think it best for me to pass them by.

Lazzaro was a pleasant person and very witty in his speech; and although
he was much given to pleasure, nevertheless he never strayed from the
path of right living. His life lasted seventy-two years, and he left a
son called Giorgio, who occupied himself continually with the ancient
Aretine vases of terra-cotta; and at the time when Messer