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1G2 the fifteenth century. Chap. VI. Ingegno aided Perugino at Assisi, referring perhaps to the frescos on the outerside of the chapel of S. Francis in S. M. degli Angeli. He alludes finally to the Sixtine chapel where he (Ingegno) also helps our artist (Perugino), and says immediately after: 'The great hopes which Ingegno had given rise to, were dissipated by his prema ture blindness. Upon this Pope Sixtus (the IV th ) gave him a pension at Assisi which he enjoyed till the age of 86.’ Sixtus the IV th died in 1484. Raphael first joined the school of Pe- rngino about 1500 when the hall of the Cambio was begun. Vasari therefore commits a gross error of chronology; for Ingegno could not have lost his sight twenty years before he competed with Raphael. Mariotti and Orsini think it impossible that Ingegno should have had a share in the decoration of the Cambio; because they believed Vasari’s story of his blindness. They should rather have suspected that Vasari was ill informed on that point. There is not a word about Ingegno in Vasari’s first edition, and he is only mentioned in that of 1568. It is not unlikely that in the latter, a misprint should have occurred (Papa Sisto for Papa Giulio II J ), for we shall see that under the Pontificate of Julius, Ingegno was appointed to a place. ... It is at all events capable of proof [that, if Andrea lost his sight at all, the event occurred later than has been stated. For the cavalier Frondini at Assisi is possessor of a book which I have examined, in which Andreas gives receipts for certain sums paid in to the account of his brother who was a canon of the cathedral of Assisi. lie there calls himself: “Ingegnio di Maestro Ali- visse”, or: Allovisii, Allevisi, and Aloisi”. The last receipt runs as fol lows: “Ingegno di Maestro Allovisl, die Mercurii, quinta Decembris 1509.” Had these documents which are all in the- same hand, been written by another, the fact would have been stated; this was the legal system of the period. But it appears that the name Ingegno might not only be due to the man’s talent as a painter, but to a known versatility on his part. Frondini 'showed me many original MS. in which our Ingegno appears as proctor (1505), justice (1507), assistant to the authorities (1510), and finally as papal cashier (1511). . . . Vasari, it is clear, confounds a pension with the salary, paid to a papal cashier which Ingegno had become in 1511. He con founds Julius the 1I J with Sixtus the IV th . Rumohr then proceeds to state, that the only notice lie has of an artistic work by Ingegno is that described in the following, which is an extract from a “Bolle- tario” in the office of the public secretary at Assisi: “An 1484. 29. Octobris. Magister Andreas Aloysii habuit bullectam pro armis pictis in platea et ad portas eivitatis . . . flor. 5. solid 26”. Rumohr, Forsch. II. 324 and fol 1*.