Not so great really as Luca Signorelli, for example, whom few visitors to the galleries rush at with gurgling cries of rapture as they rush at Andrea.
When Andrea was twenty-six he married.

The lady was the widow of a hatter.

Andrea had long loved her, but the hatter clung outrageously to life.

In 1513, however, she was free, and, giving her hand to the painter, his freedom passed for ever.

Vasari being among Andrea's pupils may be trusted here, and Vasari gives her a bad character, which Browning completes.