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Chap. XIII. FRA BARTOLOMMEO DELLA PORTA. 427 CHAPTER XIII. FRA BARTOLOMMEO DELLA PORTA. Fra Bartolommeo, who was called Bartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino, before he joined the Dominican order, was apprentice to Cosimo Rosselli. His uncles, Jacopo and Giusto di Jacopo settled in 1469'—70 at Suffignano a village near Florence, and lived there as agricultural labourers; his father Pagholo, pursuing the restless calling of a muleteer. 1 Towards the close of 1478, Pagholo settled at Florence having saved a small competence with which he bought a house and garden in S. Pier’ Gattolino. 2 1 These facts are made clear from the Portate al Catasto of Giusto in 1469 and 1487, from which, as well as'from that of Pao lo (1480—1), we take the follow ing genealogy. Piero begets Jacopo. Jacopo, by his second wife Margareta, b. 1499, begets Paolo, b. 1418, married to Andrea, b. 1448, died 1487; and Giusto, b. 1433; and Jacopo, b. 1435, married Madda- lena, b. 1445. Paolo, muleteer, be gets: Bartolommeo, b. 1475, died 1617: Piero, afterwards a priest, b. 1477 ; Domenico, b. 1479, d. 1486; and Michele, b. 1480 (fa voured by Signor Gaetano Mila- nesi). Vasari is therefore wrong in stating that Fra Bartolommeo was born at Savignano (VII. 171) in which place no trace of the fa mily can be discovered; and it is more likely that he was of Suffi- gnano where his uncles lived. 2 In a “protocollo” drawn up by Ser Jacopo di Bartolommeo de’ Camerotti (Archiv. gen. de’ con- tratti di Firenze (1477. 80) we find the following: “Anno 1478. die octava Sept. Andreas quondam Gabriellis Vi- chi, populi S. Petri in Selva de Castiglia, pro se atque suis here- dibus dedit, vendidit, Paulo Jacobi Picri vecturali, populi sancti feli- cis in platea ementi pro se atque suis lieredibus, unam domum cum palcliissaliis, cameris, etliorto, pu- teo, trogolo &c. positam Floren- tie in populo S. Petri in Gattolino, cum a primo via &c. pro pretio et no-