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420 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Chap. XII. side. On the left, two kneeling angels (wood, figures third of life). Not by Raffaellino, but a Florentine disciple of Michele di Ridolfo or Mariano da Pescia. Mayence. Museum. No. 129. Described “manner of Ghirlandaio”. Virgin erect, the child turning the leaves of a book on a marble table (wood, figures */ 3 life size). In Raffaellino’s style. Missing pieces may be registered as follows: Florence, taber nacle at the corner of the Ponte alia Carraia and Canto alia Cu- culia (Vas. VII. 192). Villa of Marignolle; two tavole (ib. ib. ib.). S. Spirito. Pieth. Vision of S. Bernard (as regards the latter see antea p. 255), and Virgin, child, SS. Jerom and Bartholomew (ib. ib. 192—3). S. Pier Maggiore: Virgin, child, and SS. Gio. Gualberto and Francis (ib. ib. 194 and Ricba, Chiese I. 141) .Murate: S. Sigis- mund (Vas. VII. 194). S. Pancrazio; fresco of the Nativity (ib. ib. ib.), Ponte a Rubaconte, chapel (ib. ib. 195). Cliiesa dell’ Arc angelo Raffaello; Virgin and child (Richa, Chiese; I. 1G7 and IX. 129). The life of Piero di Cosimo, the cotemporary of Credi and Raffaellino, affords Vasari matter for an amusing and perhaps overdrawn sketch of character. Piero is said in his youth to have been industrious and clever, but absent, solitary, and given to castle-building. At a later period, he became a misanthrope; would not admit any one to his room either to clean it or to see his pictures; never had a regular meal, but if hungry, ate of hard eggs which he cooked half a hundred at a time. He was an enemy to all artificial cultivation of men as well as of plants. His eccentricities increased with age, so that in his latter days he was querulous and intole rant, subject to fits of fright if he heard the distant growl of thunder, impatient of ordinary noises, such as the cry ing of children, the coughing of men, ringing of bells, chanting of friars, arid buzzing of flies. During a para lysis which made his last hours burdensome, he would inveigh against all doctors, apothecaries, and nurses, sus pecting them of starving their patients; and he was heard to contrast the melancholy nature of death by prolonged