e in fresco showing the latter Saint presenting himself to Ananias
after being converted by Christ; which work, although he executed it
when still a lad, is much extolled. For the noble Counts Canossi he
painted two apartments, and in a hall two friezes with battle-pieces,
which are very beautiful and praised by everyone. In Venice he painted
the facade of a house near the Carmine, a work of no great size, but
much extolled, in which he executed a figure of Venice crowned and
seated upon a lion, the device of that Republic. For Camillo Trevisano
he painted the facade of his house at Murano, and in company with his
son Marco he decorated the inner court with very beautiful scenes in
chiaroscuro. And in competition with Paolo Veronese he painted a large
chamber in the same house, which proved to be so beautiful that it
brought him much honour and profit.

The same master has also executed many works in miniature, of which the
most recent is a very beautiful drawing of S. Eustachio adoring Christ,
who has appeared to him between the horns of a deer, with two dogs near
him, which could not be more excellent, and a landscape full of trees,
receding and fading away little by little into the distance, which is an
exquisite thing. This drawing has been very highly praised by the many
persons who have seen it, and particularly by Danese da Carrara, who saw
it when he was in Verona, carrying out the work of the Chapel of the
Signori Fregosi, which is one of rare distinction among all the number
that there are in Italy at the present day. Danese, I say, having seen
this drawing, was lost in astonishment at its beauty, and exhorted the
above-mentioned Fra Marco de' Medici, his old and particular friend, not
for anything in the world to let it slip through his hands, but to
contrive to place it among the other choice examples of all the arts in
his possession. Whereupon Battista, having heard that Fra Marco desired
it, and knowing of his friendship with his father-in-law, gave it to
him, almost forcing him to accept it, in the presence of Danese; nor was
that good Father ungrateful to him for so much courtesy. However, since
that same Battista and his son Marco are alive and still at work, I
shall say nothing more of them for the present.

Il Moro had another disciple, called Orlando Fiacco, who has become a
good master and a very able painter of portraits, as may be seen from
the many that he has painted, all very beautiful and mos