es, and perchance even of our own, that
is much better. For Fra Giovanni da Verona, who executed this work, was
most excellent in that art, as was said in the Life of Raffaello da
Urbino, and as is demonstrated not only by his many other works in
houses of his Order, but also by those that are in the Papal Palace at
Rome, in Monte Oliveto di Chiusuri in the territory of Siena, and in
other places. But those of this sacristy are the best of all the works
that Fra Giovanni ever executed, for the reason that it may be said that
in them he surpassed himself by as much as he excelled in the rest every
other master. Among other things, Fra Giovanni carved for this place a
candelabrum more than fourteen feet in height to hold the Paschal
candle, all made of walnut-wood, and wrought with such extraordinary
patience that I do not believe that there is a better work of the same
kind to be seen.

But to return to Francesco: he painted for the same church the
panel-picture which is in the Chapel of the Counts Giusti, in which he
depicted the Madonna, with S. Augustine and S. Martin in pontifical
robes. And in the cloister he executed a Deposition from the Cross, with
the Maries and other Saints, works in fresco which are much extolled in
Verona. In the Church of the Vittoria he painted the Chapel of the
Fumanelli, which is below the wall that supports the choir which was
built by the Chevalier Messer Niccolo de' Medici; and a Madonna in
fresco in the cloister. And afterwards he painted a portrait from life
of Messer Antonio Fumanelli, a physician very famous for the works
written by him in connection with his profession. He painted in fresco,
also, on a house which is seen on the left hand as one crosses the Ponte
delle Navi on the way to S. Paolo, a Madonna with many Saints, which is
held to be a very beautiful work, both in design and in colouring; and
on the house of the Sparvieri, in the Bra, opposite to the garden of the
Friars of S. Fermo, he painted another like it. Francesco painted a
number of other works, of which there is no need to make mention, since
the best have been described; let it suffice to say that he gave grace,
unity, and good design to his pictures, with a colouring as vivid and
pleasing as that of any other painter. Francesco lived fifty-five years,
and died on May 16, 1529. He chose to be carried to his tomb in the
habit of a Friar of S. Francis, and he was buried in S. Domenico, beside
his father. He was