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504 been able to procure the portrait of Garofalo, I have placed at the commencement of this series of Lombard painters that of Girolamo Carpi, whose Life I am now about to write.

Girolamo, then, who was called Da Carpi, f and who was a Ferrarese, and disciple of Benvenuto Garofalo, passed his earlier years in the work-shops of his father Tommaso, who was a painter of shields, and who employed him to decorate cotfers, seats, frames, and other matters of similar character. Girolamo, having subsequently made some progress under the discipline of Benvenuto, expected that his father would set him free from the necessity of executing those mechanical works, but as Tommaso, desirous of gain, would do nothing of the kind, his son resolved to leave him, come what might thereof.

He thereupon departed from Ferrara and repaired to Bologna, where he found much favour with the gentlemen of that city: wherefore having taken certain portraits, which were found to be very fair likenesses, he acquired so good a reputation that he made large gains, and was able to gain more for his father by his abode in Bologna than he had done while in Ferrara.

Now at that time there had been a work by the hand of Antonio Correggio transported to Bologna and deposited in the house of the Counts Ereoiani. The subject of the