ADDENDA.
Piacenza, in tho Turinese edition of the Decennali of Baldinucci, has made various additions to the notices previously given of our Author by the accomplished churchman, Bottari; and of these we here reproduce such portions as seem best calculated to complete the biography left unfinished by the subject of it, supplying what was still wanting by reference to other authorities. From Bottari we find that in 1570 Vasari was once more in Rome, invited thither by Pope Pius V., who had requested the permission of Duke Cosimo to that effect, where he painted three Lunettes in the ascent, called the Cordonate, which connects the Court of San Damaso with the Loggia, &c., painted by Raphael. In the Sala Regia, also, there are numerous pictures by his hand; that over the entrance from the Scala Regia, for example, and which represents the Excommunication of the Emperor Frederick by Pope Gregory IX. The large picture, between the door of the Sistine Chapel and that of the Scala Regia, the Victory of Lepanto namely, is also by Vasari. “All these,” says Bottari, “are the work of Giorgio; but certain large figures, representing the Holy Church, Spain, and the Republic of Venice, are by Lorenzino, of Bologna.”
The picture next to this, a very beautiful one, is also by Giorgio, although it has been attributed to Taddeo Zucchero, but that painter died five years before the naval combat represented therein had taken place. It is true that the large figures are by Lorenzetto. The picture of Gregory IX., conducted by Santa Caterina, of Siena, and removing the Apostolic Seat into France, is another of Vasari’s works; the name and native place of the artist are written in the Greek character thereon, and this painting has more of Vasari’s usual manner than has that mentioned immediately before it. The Death of Coligny is in like manner by his hand, as were the Cartoons for other pictures here painted, but which were coloured by his disciples.
The Altar-piece in the private Chapel of San Pio, which represents the Death of St. Peter Martyr, is likewise by our artist; and the Cartoons for other pictures in the same Chapel are by his hand, but were executed by his disciples. The Vaulting of the first Chapel, belonging to the private
