d, the rest of the rooms
were entrusted in part to Luzio Romano, and finally the halls and other
important apartments were finished partly by Perino with his own hand,
and partly by others after his cartoons. The principal hall is very
pleasing and beautiful, being wrought in stucco and all filled with
scenes from Roman history, executed for the most part by Perino's young
men, and not a few by the hand of Marco da Siena, the disciple of
Domenico Beccafumi; and in certain rooms there are most beautiful
friezes.

Perino, when he could find young men of ability, was wont to make use of
them willingly in his works; but for all that he never ceased to execute
any commonplace commission. He very often painted pennons for trumpets,
banners for the Castle, and those of the fleet of the Militant Order;
and he executed hangings, tabards, door-curtains, and the most
insignificant works of art. He began some canvases from which tapestries
were to be woven for Prince Doria, and he painted a chapel for the very
reverend Cardinal Farnese, and a writing-study for the most illustrious
Madama Margherita of Austria. He caused an ornamental frame to be made
round the Madonna in S. Maria del Pianto, and also another ornamental
frame round the Madonna in Piazza Giudea; and he executed many other
works, of which, by reason of their number, I will not now make any
further mention, particularly because he was accustomed to accept any
sort of work that came to his hand. This disposition of Perino's, which
was well known to the officials of the Palace, was the reason that he
always had something to do for one or another of them, and he did it
willingly, in order to bind them to himself, so that they might be
obliged to serve him in the payment of his allowances and in his other
requirements. In addition to this, Perino had acquired such authority
that all the work in Rome was allotted to him, for the reason that,
besides the circumstance that it appeared to be in a certain sense his
due, he would sometimes execute commissions for the most paltry prices;
whereby he did little good, nay rather, much harm, to himself and to
art. That these words are true is proved by this, that if he had
undertaken to paint the Hall of Kings in the Palace on his own account,
and had worked at it together with his own assistants, he would have
saved several hundreds of crowns, which all went to the overseers who
had charge of the work and paid the daily wages to tho