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Rh Giovanni, but this work is executed in the old manner, with the figures on the points of their feet, as was the custom with the painters who lived at the time of Bartolommeo da Bergamo.

There are many who find an unworthy pleasure in casting ridicule and contempt on others, but these, for the most part, turn to their own confusion, as happened in the case of Cosimo Rosselli, by whom the scorn with which certain artists treated his works was thrown back on their own heads. Now this Cosimo, though he was not among the eminent or distinguished painters of his day, yet his works are, upon the whole, moderately good. In his youth he painted a picture in the church of Sant’ Ambrogio, in Florence, which is on the right hand of the entrance, with three figures, for the nuns of San Jacopo delle Murate. He also worked in the church of the Servites (likewise in Florence), where he painted the altar-piece for the chapel of Santa Barbara, and in the first court, before entering the