Lappoli, Alfani, Vasari, and Rosso Fiorentino

Abstract

It was, most likely, in the spring of 1524 that Rosso left Florence for Rome, traveling, so Vasari tells us, via Arezzo.¹ There he was given lodgings by Giovanni Antonio Lappoli, who had only shortly before returned from Florence to his native town.² Lappoli had gone to Florence around 1514, and it was in Florence, possibly in the house of “ser Raffaello di Sandro zoppo, cappellano in San Lorenzo,” that Rosso came to know the Aretine painter.³ They may also have been introduced to each other by Lappoli's Florentine master, Jacopo Pontormo.⁴