Anonimo Gaddiano

It includes brief biographies and notes on the works of Italian artists, mainly those active in Florence during the Middle Ages.

[5] The entries for artists concentrate on lists of works, and lack the full biographical ambition of Vasari.

[8] Frank Zöllner argues that the author of the note simply made a mistake, and was referring to the Mona Lisa.

[10] Like Vasari, the author had access to a version of the material known from the somewhat earlier manuscript of Antonio Billi, from about 1515, which may have been circulated among Florentine art lovers in various redactions.

He was later a patron of the sculptor Giambologna, and helped Duke Cosimo organize his artistic projects, in 1572 provoking bitter complaints by Vasari, surviving in a letter to Vincenzo Borghini (another figure suggested as the Anonimo Gaddiano).