The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-10-27

oertakeh the decostion of the papal Loggic.
He appointed Giova.u da Udine chief Of the
work, and ordered hiil to employ the best
artists in Rome-o WHOM there were then
great numbers from abroad in the different
departments in which they excelled; the
designs and sketches being prepored by him
self Into this company he p,a Perno !;
telling him that he would receive employment
according to his ability and progress. The
ambition Of the latter was thus excited to
highest pitch, and before many months nc
was pronounced the most graceful in man
ner, the most animated in execution, most
delicate in finish, and the most faithful trans
lator of the ideas ofthe master, of the whole
band of laborors. Many works of great i'm
portance We're entrusted to him, in all of
which he was entirely successful. lie was
thus enabled to live respectfully, to dress as
became his position. and what was still better.
] u,io Romano and Giovan Francesca. His
fame was thus thoroughly established when
the plague appeared in Rome AZ first he
was so anxious for his painting in the chapel
Santa Trinita di Monte, which had been in
terrupted by illness, that he scarcely noticed
the progress Of the scourge and he would,
perhaps, have continued to disregard it, but
for the entreaties of his favorite companion,
Photo, the friend and pupil ofMchal Angelo.
"fou are now twenty three" said Photo,
one morning at breakfast, while he deliberately
broke an egg with silver palette knife.
"You have just begun. You cannot afford
to throw away your lifejust at present Go
with me to Florence. You can never have a
better time to do so. Indeed, you owe Il
visit to the city and to yourself" ..,.. 81.
Perino hesitated. He was thinking of
Caterina, whom he had not seen for long
time on account of her sickness, and about
whom he had feared to inquire, lest his man
ner should betray too much interest. ''She
has gone without doubt" he said 10 himself,
land /, alas ! dare not follow herr 81
will co. he replied to Pilote. "This morn
ing if you will" and in few hours the two
were galloping across the Campagna.
Perino was loudly welcomed to his birth.
place. Crowds of artists accompanied him
in his visits to the churches and the various
spots endeared to him by the memories of
his childhood But the well.earned plaud.
its which he received could not make up for
the absence of the good Andrea de Ceri and
his wife, who Were dead; and the plague
following him to Florence, he was easily
persuaded to fly a second time from its raw
ages. Saddened by the decease OF the
warm hearted painter and his indulrent
wife, depressed by the perpetual spread and
maignancy OF the peStilence, and deprived
of the occasional sl;rnpses of Catarina, Witch
hid become really necessary to him, he wan
dered from place to place, until Rome was
restored to its usual degree of health Set
tied again in his former quarters, he painted
only small pictures. in each of which appear
ed some grace borrowed from the innocent
and eloquent love-dream, which had so s,
lently taken Possession of his soul. He work
ed on thus for nearly two years, when an
unexpected incident converted his wishes in
to reality. Raphael being dead, it had been
decided that Giuiio Romano and Giovan
Francisco, his deciples, to whom re had de-
sccnded his sketches and designs, should be
appointed in his place, Directorssof the Fine
Arts. But the two did not know of this. and
fearing that the election would fall upon Per-
mo, they determined to attach him unalter-
ably to their interests by conserving to his
marriage with eaterina. This they did, and
for time, the painter lived and expanded in
the love-light which illumined and warmed
his modest dwelling,
A second Catarina, a miniature copy of
the sweet mother, had come to make its walls
ring with the music of her elee, when the
army of Charles V. took and sacked Rome.
Concealing his wife as well as he was able
Perino hurried fromone quarter of the CITY
to another, with his infant in his arms in the
VAN hope Of escape ; but he was captured,
as he feared, and the ransom demanded of
him again reduced his fortunes to low ebb.
Rome in ruins, her noblest and best families
dead, imprisoned, in voluntary or involuntary
exile, was no place for an artist. Perino.
therefore. repaired to Genoa, where, under
the patronage of Prince Doria be, executed
some of his finest works, and where he foun-
ded a school which is said to have "main-
tained thegsplendor Of its origin in way
inferior to none" It has produced great
numbers of excellent hesco painters, and has
been particularly celebrated for its force of
truth and colcring. Again prosperous, Pc
rino returned to Rome for his wife, when
CHANGING to pass through Pisa, he was so
delighted with the place that he immediately
bought house and commenced painting
of great beauty inthe cathedral, aires ady rich
in art. But sadly enough, his character did
not develop into the excellence and harmony
Of which his early years gave promise. His
love of gain grew apace, and often made him
forgetful of his reputation. The pleasures
of the table wore upon his health. Worse
than all, a lovely face sometimes seduced
him from his own fireside, and the compan-
ionship of his wife and child. And now,
in the midst of the great work he had under