in del Sarto's work. Cinelli speaks of two angels painted for Baccio d'Agnello in an apartment of the house above this Tabernacolo, but they no longer exist. Reumont speaks of having seen the Tabernacolo in 1830 very much in the same condition as we now find it that is, almost completely destroyed. Han/staengl photo\ {Berlin LUCREZIA CHAPTER II DOMESTIC LIFE IT was during this time, whilst Andrea, the kindly and popular young artist, beloved by all who knew him, was painting pictures of rare excellence, and beautifying and adorning his native city, that a new and dangerous element entered into his life, destined to influence all his future. " In the Via di San Gallo there lived a very beautiful young woman, the wife of a cap-maker, Carlo di Domenico Recanati. She was the daughter of a common man, one Bartolomeo del Fede, but this did not hinder her being filled with as much pride and haughtiness as her beauty was fraught with fateful attraction. She delighted in entrapping the hearts of men, and, amongst others, Andrea fell a victim to her fascinations. His immoderate passion