ent to the expense of having them
written, which was very great, wished also to have them adorned as much
as was possible with illuminations.

This master illuminated many choral books, all beautiful, which are at
Verona, in S. Giorgio, in S. Maria in Organo, and in S. Nazzaro; but the
most beautiful is a little book, or rather, two little pictures that
fold together after the manner of a book, on one side of which is a S.
Jerome, a figure executed with much diligence and very minute
workmanship, and on the other a S. John in the Isle of Patmos, depicted
in the act of beginning to write his Book of the Apocalypse. This work,
which was bequeathed to Count Agostino Giusti by his father, is now in
S. Leonardo, a convent of Canons Regular, of which Don Timoteo Giusti,
the son of that Count, is a member. Finally, after having executed
innumerable works for various noblemen, Francesco died, content and
happy for the reason that, in addition to the serenity of mind that his
goodness brought him, he left behind him a son, called Girolamo, who was
so excellent in art that before his death he saw him already a much
greater master than himself.

This Girolamo, then, was born at Verona in the year 1472, and at the age
of sixteen he painted for the Chapel of the Lischi, in S. Maria in
Organo, an altar-piece which caused such marvel to everyone when it was
uncovered and set in its place, that the whole city ran to embrace and
congratulate his father Francesco. In this picture is a Deposition from
the Cross, with many figures, and among the many beautiful weeping
heads the best of all are a Madonna and a S. Benedict, which are much
commended by all craftsmen; and he also made therein a landscape, with a
part of the city of Verona, drawn passing well from the reality. Then,
encouraged by the praises that he heard given to his work, Girolamo
painted the altar of the Madonna in S. Paolo in a masterly manner, and
also the picture of the Madonna with S. Anne, which is placed between
the S. Sebastian of Il Moro and the S. Rocco of Cavazzuola in the Church
of the Scala. For the family of the Zoccoli he painted the great
altar-piece of the high-altar in the Church of the Vittoria, and for the
family of the Cipolli the picture of S. Onofrio, which is near the
other, and is held to be both in design and in colouring the best work
that he ever executed.

For S. Leonardo nel Monte, also, near Verona, he painted at the
commission of the Cartier