A disciple of Girolamo, as has been related, was Francesco Menzochi of Forli, who first began to draw by himself when still a child, imitating and copying an altar-piece in the Duomo of Forli, by the hand of Marco Parmigiano[7] of Forli, containing a Madonna, S. Jerome, and other Saints, and held at that time to be the best of the modern pictures; and he occupied himself likewise with imitating the works of Rondinino[8] da Ravenna, a painter more excellent than Marco, who a little time before had placed on the high-altar of the above-named Duomo a most beautiful altar-piece, in which was painted Christ giving the Communion to the Apostles, and in a lunette above it a Dead Christ, and in the predella of that altar-piece very graceful scenes with little figures from the life of S. Helen. These works brought him forward in such a manner, that, when Girolamo Genga went, as we have said, to paint the chapel in S. Francesco at Forli for M. Bartolommeo Lombardino, Francesco at that time went to live with Genga, seizing that opportunity of learning, and did not cease to serve him as long as he lived. There, and also at Urbino and in the work of the Imperiale at Pesaro, he laboured continually, as has been related, esteemed and beloved by Genga, because he acquitted himself very well, as many altar-pieces by his hand bear witness that are dispersed throughout the city of Forli, and particularly three of them which are in S. Francesco, besides that there are some scenes of his in fresco in the hall of the Palace. [Footnote 7: Palmezzani.] [Footnote 8: Rondinello.]