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From the letters of Giorgio Vasari it is still possible to glean useful information relating to the artists he was in contact with and about whom he wrote in his Lives, and about his activity as a painter and historiographer. Various mentions of Perino del Vaga and Gaspar Becerra that are important for the reconstruction of certain episodes in their respective activity, and for the consequences that such passages involved in the development of Vasarian painting, are considered here. Drawing on the information supplied by the written correspondence, it may be suggested to attribute the problematic 'Allegory of Patience' of Palazzo Pitti, executed for Bernardetto Minerbetti, an important art patron in Florence at the time of Cosimo I, to a collaboration between Vasari and the Spanish painter. But after re-examining the letters of the Aretine important information is evinced concerning the different critical position of Michelangelo between the first and second edition of the Lives, in the light of the relations Vasari had with the artist after the publication of the Torrentiniana.