Note 72 — BOOK VI.

We ought to credit his own testimony. He painted three pictures at S. Paolino di Lucca, and in that of S. Antonio Abate he subscribes himself Alexander Ardentius Faventinus, 1565; so says Monsig. Mansi, Archbishop of Lucca, in his Diario. He however in other places in that little work, and Sig. Morrona in his Pisa, call him a Pisan, and others a Lucchese.