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Rh Pietro formed many masters in his own manner, among these was one who proved to be indeed most excellent, one who devoted himself wholly to the honourable studies of his art, and very greatly surpassed his master; this was no other than the wondrous Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino, who together with his father, Giovanni de’ Santi, worked many years with Pietro Perugino.

The painter Benedetto Pinturicchio, of Perugia, was also a disciple of Pietro, whose manner he always retained, as we have related in his life. Rocco Zoppo, a Florentine painter, was likewise the disciple of this master. Filippo Salviati has a very beautiful Madonna, in a round picture, by his hand, but it is true that this was entirely finished by Pietro himself. Rocco painted numerous pictures of the Madonna, and took many portraits, of which there is no need to speak further; but I will not omit to r<^late that this artist executed the portrait of Girolamo Riario, in the Sistine chapel in Rome, with that of F. Pietro, cardinal of San Sisto. Another disciple of Pietro was Montevarchi, who painted many pictures in San Giovanni, in Valdarno, more particularly for the church of the Madonna, where he exe-