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398 one who has desired honestly to labour in any manner. Francesco was accordingly sent to the Cathedral of Pisa where he has been occupied much to his credit up to the present time in the chapel of the Annunciation, which had been constructed by Stagio di Pietra Santa, and where Moschino has executed sculptures and works of all kinds; among these are figures four braccia high representing the Angel and the Madonna, with others of Adam and Eve who have the Apple between them. There is besides a large figure of God the Father, surrounded by angels in the form of children, in the vaulting of that chapel; the whole being in marble, as are the two figures previously mentioned, and which have obtained considerable reoutation and honour for Moschino.

But the chapel of the Annunciation is now on the eve of completion, and his Excellency has given orders to the effect that the chapel, which is opposite thereto, being the one which is close to the entrance of the church on the left hand, and is called the Chapel of the Incoronata, should be at once put in hand. This same Moschino has also acquitted himself very well in such of the works required for the preparations consequent on the marriage of her most serene Majesty the Queen Joanna and of the most illustrious Prince of Florence, as were entrusted to his care.

Girolamo Genga, who was a native of Urbino, was placed at ten years old by his father to learn the art of working in