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336 unwillingly, arriving there much indisposed and in great depression of spirits- His grief for the death of his brother whom he had loved extremely, brought a grievous aggravation to a nephritic disease from which he was suffering, and this became so violent that in the course of a few days Cristofano died, having first received the sacraments of the church, and distributed to those of his own family and to the poor, all the money which he had brought with him. A short time before his death he declared that he regretted his approaching departure only because he wTas leaving Vasari in so much embarrassment, and with so many heavy labours before him, those namely to which he had set hand in the palace of the Duke.

No long time after, and when Duke Cosimo heard of Cristofano’s death, which he did with much regret, his Excellency commanded that the Bust of the artist should be executed in marble, and this he sent from Florence to Borgo, with the under-written inscription, when they were both placed in the church of San Francesco. 

The ancestors or forefathers of Bartolommeo di Jacopo di Martino, the father of Jacopo da Puntormo, whose life we