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The painter began his career as a workshop assistant for the decoration of the Vatican Loggia, directed by Niccolo Circignani.
Dictated to a workshop assistant, it is composed in colloquial language with no literary artifice and gives a firsthand account of the writer's experience in the Rome of Clement VII, the France of Francis I, and the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici.
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