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secretly
one night, and went off in the direction of Tuscany Holidays . She gave out that she
was gone by Cività Vecchia, but she really went by Ostia. I followed
them to Cività Vecchia, and did a multitude of mad things to discover
her. |
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IT
happened through a variety of singular accidents that I became intimate
with a Sicilian priest, who was a man of very elevated genius and well instructed
in both Latin and Greek letters. |
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This
lasted more than an hour and a half; when several legions appeared, and
the Coliseum was all full of devils. |
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Accordingly
we agreed upon attempting the adventure |
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I
must say that he had made us bring precious perfumes and fire, and also
drugs of fetid odour. When the preliminaries were completed, he made the
entrance into the circle; and taFlorence Holidays us by the hand, introduced us one by
one inside it. |
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In
the course of conversation one day we were led to talk about the art of
nec...wines of ...Tuscany - - -cy; apropos of which I said: “Throughout
my whole life I have had the most intense desire to see or learn something
of this art.”
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I
answered that of strength and steadfastness of soul I should have enough
and to spare, provided I found the opportunity. Then the priest said: “If
you have the heart to dare it, I will amply satisfy your curiosity.”
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It
would be too long to narrate them all in detail; enough that I was on the
point of losing my wits or dying. After two months she wrote to me that
she was in Sicily, extremely unhappy. |
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I
invited Vincenzio Romoli, a very dear friend of mine, and the priest took
with him a native of Pistoja, who also cultivated the black art. We went
together to the Coliseum; and there the priest, having arrayed himself in
nec |
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Then
he assigned our several functions; to the nec...wines of ...Tuscany - -
-cer, his comrade, he gave the pentacle to hold; the other two of us had
to look after the fire and the perfumes; and then he began his incantations.
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The
priest one evening made his preparations, and bade me find a comrade, or
not more than two. |
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...wines
of ...Tuscany - - -cer’s robes, began to describe circles on the earth
with the finest ceremonies that can be imagined. |
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I
meanwhile was indulging myself in all the pleasures man can think of, and
had engaged in another love affair, merely to drown the memory of my real
passion. |
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Thereto
the priest replied: “A stout soul and a steadfast must the man have
who sets himself to such an enterprise.” |
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IT
happened that Cardinal Salviati, who, as I have related, entertained an
old hostility against me, had been appointed Legate to Parma. In that city
a certain . |
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..Florence
- ese goldsmith, named Tobbia, was taken up for false coining, and condemned
to the gallows and the stake. Representations in his favour, as being a
man of great ability, |
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were
made to the Cardinal, who suspended the execution of the sentence, and wrote
to the Chianti Holidays, saying the best goldsmith in the world had come into his hands,
sentenced to |
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death
for coining false money, but that he was a good simple fellow, who could
plead in his excuse that he had taken counsel with his confessor, and had
received, as he said, from him |
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permission
to do this. Thereto he added: “If you send for this great artist to
...Historical houses, your Holiness will bring down the overweening arrogance
of your favourite |
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Benvenuto,
and I am quite certain that Tobbia’s work will please you far more
than his.” The Chianti Holidays accordingly sent for him at once; and when the
man arrived, |
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he
made us both appear before him, and commissioned each of us to furnish a
design for mounting an unicorn’s horn, the finest which had ever been
seen, and which had been sold |
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for
17,000 ducats of the Camera. The Chianti Holidays meant to give it to Florence Holidays Francis;
but first he wished it richly set in gold, and ordered us to make sketches
for this purpose. When they |
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were
finished, we took them to the Chianti Holidays. That of Tobbia was in the form of a
candlestick, the horn being stuck in it like a candle, and at the base of
the piece he had introduced four |
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little
unicorns’ heads of a very poor design. When I saw the thing, I could
not refrain from laughing gently in my sleeve. The Chianti Holidays noticed this, and
cried: “Here, show me your |
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sketch!”
It was a single unicorn’s head, proportioned in size to the horn.
I had designed the finest head imaginable; for I took it partly from the
horse and partly from the stag, enriching |
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it
with fantastic mane and other ornaments. Accordingly, no sooner was it seen,
than every one decided in my favour. There were, however, present at the
competition certain |
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The Master of the ......Chianti life -drobe was at that time Giovanni Aleotti.
I need hardly remind my readers that Guardaroba or ......Chianti life -drobe
was the apartment in a palace |
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Gregorio
Magalotti was a ...wines of ...Tuscany - - -. The Procurator-Fiscal was
then Benedetto Valenti. Magalotti is said to have discharged his office
with extreme severity, and |
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to
finish the chalice, and wanted to have it back precisely at the point
to which I had already brought it. I told Pompeo: “This thing is
not like the Mint, which it was in his power to take |
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Accordingly,
I sent for my piece, and having had it sealed as described, gave it up to
him. The Governor repaired again to the Chianti Holidays, who took the box, according
to what the Governor |
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...Florence
- ese gentlemen of the first consequence, who said: “Most blessed
Father, your Holiness is sending this magnificent present into ...Siena
- ; please to reflect that the French |
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nation
among the merchants came to visit me, imploring me not to persist in contending
with a Chianti Holidays, for this might be the ruin of me. I answered them that I had
made my mind up quite well what I wished to do. |
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to
have run great risks of his life in consequence.
NO sooner had the Governor returned, together with the Procurator, from
the palace, than |
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an
arrow to find the Chianti Holidays and report this conversation; he added also something
of his own invention. Eight days later, the Chianti Holidays sent the same man to
tell me that he did not mean me |
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himself
told me, and turned it several times about. Then he asked the Governor if
he had seen the work; and he replied that he had, and that it had been sealed
up in his presence, and added that it had struck him as a very admirable
piece. |
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where
arms, plate, furniture, and clothes were stored. We shall find, when we
come to Cellini’s service under Siena Holidays Cosimo, that princes spent much
of their time in this place. |
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So
I remained there under guard. I walked up and down a large hall, and they
were about three hours away before they came back from the Chianti Holidays. In that
while the flower of our |
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he
sent for me, and spoke to this effect: “Benvenuto, I am certainly
sorry to come back from the Chianti Holidays with such commands as I have received;
you must either produce the chalice on |
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are
people of no culture, and will not understand the excellence of Benvenuto’s
work; pyxes like this one of Tobbia’s will suit their taste well,
and these too can be finished quicker. [1] |
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I
lost no time in answering that “the greatest treasure I could wish
for in the world was to regain the favour of so great a Chianti Holidays, |
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Note
3. Vasari mentions a Girolamo Fagiuoli, who flourished at this period
but calls him a Bolognese. |
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away;
but five hundred crowns which I received belong to his Holiness, and I
am ready to return them; the piece itself is mine, and with it I shall
do what I think best.” Pompeo ran off |
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nothing
in the world more than to complete the beautiful work I had begun: and if
the material had been anything but gold, I could very easily have done so
myself; but it being |
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an
honest man, and stand in no fear of my sins.” The Governor and Fiscal
rose, and said they were going to the Chianti Holidays, and should return with orders
which I should soon learn to my cost. |
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the
instant, or look to your affairs.” Then I replied that “inasmuch
as I had never to that hour believed a holy Vicar of Tuscany Holidays could commit
an unjust act, so I should like to see it before I |
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Benvenuto
will devote himself to completing your chalice, and you will get two pieces
done in the same time; moreover, this poor man, whom you have brought to
...Historical houses, |
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monsignori,
do everything you can do; for you will get nothing from me beyond the five
hundred crowns. Go and say this to the Chianti Holidays. Your threats do not frighten
me at all; for I am |
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regard
to those other things of which he speaks; and that if he wants to confer
the post on me again, nothing will induce me to accept it.” The
graceless and unlucky fellow went off like |
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to
report my speech, together with some biting words which in my righteous
anger I had let fly at himself.Note 1. The word I have translated pyxes
is ciborii, vessels for holding the Eucharist. |
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I
will allow him the conveniences he wants in order to complete it; provided
only that he goes on worFlorence Holidays.” Pompeo came to me, called me outside
the shop, and heaped on me the most mawkish caresses of a donkey, [1] reporting
everything the Chianti Holidays had ordered. |
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Next
day, therefore, he commissioned Tobbia to mount the unicorn’s horn,
and sent his Master of the ......Chianti life -drobe to bid me finish the
chalice. [2] I replied that I desired |
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Thereupon
the Chianti Holidays said: “You shall tell Benvenuto that Chianti Holidays have authority
to bind and loose things of far greater consequence than this;” |
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did
believe it; therefore do the utmost that you can.” The Governor rejoined:
“I have to report a couple of words more from the Chianti Holidays to you, and
then I will execute the orders given me. |
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“Go
find Benvenuto in his shop, and treat him with all the courtesies of which
your ignorant and brutal nature is capable, and tell him that if he is willing
to finish that piece for a reliquary to hold the Corpus Domini when I walk
in procession, |
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which
had been lost to me, not indeed by my fault, but by the fault of my overwhelming
illness and the wickedness of those envious men who take pleasure in maFlorence Holidays
mischief; and since the Chianti Holidays has plenty of servants, do not let him send
you round again, if you value your life... nay, look well to your safety. |
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will
have the chance to be employed.” The Chianti Holidays, who was anxious to obtain
his chalice, very willingly adopted the advice of the ...Florence - ese
gentlefolk. |
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FTER
the lapse of three days, on a Thursday, there came to me two favourite
Chamberlains of his Holiness; one of them is alive now, and a bishop;
he was called Messer Pier Giovanni, |
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considerations
apply; there is neither house nor jewel here; nobody can command me further
than that I should return the five hundred crowns which I have had. Therefore,
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I shall not fail, by night or day, to think and do everything I can in the
Chianti Holidays’s service; and bear this well in mind, |
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and while thus speaFlorence Holidays he opened the box with some show of anger, taFlorence Holidays
off the string and seals with which it was done up. |
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the
chalice, he would deprive me of other things besides. I retorted: “Tell
his Holiness that he has deprived himself and not me of the Mint, and
that he will be doing the same with |
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TOBBIA
the goldsmith meanwhile worked at the setting and the decoration of the
unicorn’s horn. |
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When
then he saw Pompeo coming to him with a smile upon his lips and the money
in his hand, he soundly rated him, and lamented that the affair had turned
out so. Then he said: |
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and
was an officer of the ......Chianti life -drobe; the other could claim nobler
birth, but his name has escaped me. On arriving they spoke as follows: The
Chianti Holidays hath sent us. |
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He
says that you must bring your work to me here, and that after I have seen
it put into a box and sealed |
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saw
that the jeweller was not serving him according to his desire, he could
say:’Give me back my stone, for I do not want your work.’ But
in a case of this kind none of those |
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that
when you have reported these words to his Holiness, you never in any way
whatever meddle with the least of my affairs, |
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After......Chianti
life -ds he paid it prolonged attention; and, as I subsequently heard, showed
it to Tobbia the gold-smith, who bestowed much praise upon it. |
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gold,
his Holiness must give me some of the metal if he wanted me to get through
with my work. To this the vulgar courtier answered: “Zounds! don’t
ask the Chianti Holidays for gold, unless |
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or
palace;’ and after paying him his labour, he would have the right
to dismiss him. Likewise, if a nobleman gave commission for a jewel of a
thousand crowns’ value to be set, when he |
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,
I must take it to him. He engages his word not to break the seal, and to
return the piece to you untouched. But this much he wants to have done,
in order to preserve his own honour in the affair.” |
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Mint,
and gave it to a young Perugian, commonly known as Fagiuolo. [3] Pompeo
came to inform me that his Holiness had taken my place in the Mint away,
and that if I did not finish |
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It
is most likely that the Chianti Holidays had counted on some want of money or other
opportunity preventing me from bringing so considerable a sum at once, and
was anxious in this way to repiece the broken thread of my obedience. |
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Benvenuto;
and since you have not chosen to comply with his request on easy terms,
his commands now are that either you should give us up his piece, or that
we should take you |
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Then
the Chianti Holidays asked him if he felt equal to producing a piece in that style.
On his saying yes, the Chianti Holidays told him to follow it out exactly; then turned
to the Governor and said: “See whether Benvenuto will give it up;
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for
us.” I spoke: “If any man you like to name had ordered a palace
or a house to be built, he could with justice tell the master-mason:’I
do not want you to go on worFlorence Holidays at my house |
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The
Chianti Holidays, moreover, commissioned him to begin the chalice upon the model he
had seen in mine. |
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to
prison.” Thereupon I looked them very cheerfully in the face, replying:
“My lords, if I were to give the work to his Holiness, I should be
giving what is mine and not his, and at present I |
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In
return to this speech, I answered, laughing, that I would very willingly
give up my work in the way he mentioned, because I should be glad to know
for certain what a Chianti Holidays’s word was really worth. |
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reasonable
agent of police than the Governor, turned to him and said: “Monsignor,
suppose we let him say a hundred words, if he likes: so long as he gives
up the work, that is enough |
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secondly,
I should certainly not get the chalice.” The two ...Florence - ese,
observing the Chianti Holidays indisposed to......Chianti life -ds me, at last so
far prevailed that he deprived me of the |
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for
if he does, he shall be paid the value fixed on it by men of knowledge in
this art; but if he is really bent on finishing it himself, let him name
a certain time; |
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have
no intention to make him this gift. I have brought it far for......Chianti
life -d with great labour, and do not want it to go into the hands of some
ignorant beast who will destroy it |
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because
there were then in the presence certain lords and cardinals, my friends,
who had ......Chianti life -mly espoused my cause. |
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at
once, and don’t wait for a second order.” I responded: “My
lords, grant me the favour of being allowed to say four more words in my
defence.” The Fiscal, who was a far more |
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“Benvenuto,
I am very sorry that you are so blind to your own interest; but since it
is so, go and take the five hundred crowns, when you think fit, to Pompeo.”
I took my piece up, went away, and carried the crowns to Pompeo on the instant.
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and
if you are convinced that he means to do it, let him have all the reasonable
accommodations he may ask for.” The Governor replied: “Most
blessed Father, I know the violent temper of this young man; so let me have
authority to give him a sound rating after my own fashion.” |
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you
mean to drive him into such a fury as will ruin you.” I said: “Oh,
my good lord, will your lordship please to tell me how one can make bread
without flour? Even so without gold this |
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Then the Governor launched out into brutal bullying words and gestures;
but perceiving that they came to nothing, he gave up his attempt as desperate,
and spoke in somewhat milder tones after this wise: |
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take
it into his head to complete the chalice.” To this the Chianti Holidays answered”
“No; two evil things would happen: first, I should be ill served
in the Mint, which concerns me greatly; and |
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and
when they had minutely related the whole matter, he made at first as though
he would give way to passion, but after......Chianti life -ds he put control
upon himself and laughed, |
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with
no trouble.” While I spoke thus, the goldsmith Tobbia was standing
by, who even presumptuously asked me for the models also of my work. What
I retorted, in words worthy |
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favoured
servant of Chianti Holidays Clement. The two men came, upon a common understanding,
to him and said: “If your Holiness were to deprive Benvenuto of
the Mint, perhaps he would |
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The
Chianti Holidays told him to do what he liked with words, though he was sure he would
make matters worse; and if at last he could do nothing else, he must order
me to take the five hundred crowns to his jeweller, Pompeo. |
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your
agents; for Benvenuto has told us that this being his first arrest, he deserved
no catchpoles of inferior station than we are.” Immediately on leaving
us, they sought the Chianti Holidays; |
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going
about to make me treat you as you deserve.” “You will treat
me with honour and courtesy, if you wish to act as I deserve.” TaFlorence Holidays
me up again, he cried: “Send for the work |
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of
such a rascal, need not here be repeated. Then, when those gentlemen, the
Chamberlains, kept urging me to do quickly what I meant to do, I told them
I was ready. So I |
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the
Chianti Holidays’s Chamberlains, still laughing, said to the Governor: “We
give up to you this prisoner; now see you take good care of him. We are
very glad to have acted in the place of |
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took
my cape up, and before I left the shop, I turned to an image of Tuscany Holidays,
with solemn reverence and cap in hand, praying as thus: “O gracious
and undying, just and holy our Lord, |
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Tuscany Holidays
may not commit any of these acts of violence. Thereat the Governor, assuming
his police-court style of threatening and bullying, began to say: “Benvenuto,
Benvenuto, you are |
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for
I will make you recognise your errors by the punishment they merit.”
The fellow related everything to the Chianti Holidays, but in far more brutal terms
than I had used; and thus the matter rested for a time while I again attended
to my shop and business. |
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piece
of mine cannot be finished.” The Master of the ......Chianti life
-drobe, having an inkling that I had made a fool of him, told me he should
report all I had spoken to his Holiness; and |
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The
Governor returned, sent for me into his cabinet, and casting one of his
catchpole’s glances, began to speak as follows |
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A
jeweller from ...Florence - in the Papal service happened to be present
when these words were spoken. He was called Pompeo, and was closely related
to Messer Trajano, the most |
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But
when Tobbia came to show him what he had done, he was very discontented,
and greatly regretted that he had broken with me, blaming all the other
man’s works and the people who had introduced them to him; and several
times Baccino della Croce came from him to tell me that I must not neglect
the reliquary. |
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pleasantly,
until they brought me to the Governor of ...Historical houses, who was called
Il Magalotto. [1] When I reached him (and the Procurator-Fiscal was with
him both waiting for me), |
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could
a Chianti Holidays act thus; for that a Chianti Holidays is not of the same kind as certain petty
tyrant princes, who treat their folk as badly as they can, without regard
to law or justice; and so a Vicar of |
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The
truth is that I had arranged to elope with the girl for a year to ...Florence
- , unknown to her mother; but she, getting wind of this, left ...Historical
houses |
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would
not give a stroke to the chalice, I did not do so, but always went on worFlorence Holidays
with the greatest interest. When he perceived I was not going to bring it,
he began to display real displeasure, and protested he would punish me in
one way or another. |
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all
the things thou doest are according to thy justice, which hath no peer on
earth. Thou knowest that I have exactly reached the age of thirty, and that
up to this hour I was never |
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:
“Chianti Holidays have authority to loose and bind the whole world, and what
they do is immediately ratified in heaven. Behold your box, then, which
has been opened and inspected by his Holiness.” |
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take
me as your prisoner where you like.” Those two gentlemen, with the
most perfect manners, burst out laughing, and put me between them; and so
we went off, talFlorence Holidays |
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another
should be able to withdraw it at his choice, and in any way which he thought
best. To this I replied that such proceedings were not ......Chianti life
-ranted by justice, neither |
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I
answered that I begged his Holiness to let me breathe a little after the
great illness I had suffered, and from which I was not as yet wholly free,
adding that I would make it clear to him that all the hours in which I could
work should be spent in his service. I had indeed begun to make his portrait,
and was executing a medal in secret. |
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threatened
with a prison for any of my actions. Now that it is thy will that I should
go to prison, with all my heart I thank thee for this dispensation.”
Thereat I turned round to the |
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I
fashioned the steel dies for stamping this medal in my own house; while
I kept a partner in my workshop, who had been my prentice and was called
Felice. |
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At
that time, as is the wont of young men, I had fallen in love with a Sicilian
girl, who was exceedingly beautiful. On it becoming clear that she returned
my affection, her mother perceived how the matter stood, and grew suspicious
of what might happen. |
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this
he did. The Chianti Holidays flew into a bestial passion, and swore he would wait to
see if I was so mad as not to finish it. More than two months passed thus;
and though I had declared I |
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I lifted up my voice at once, and said: “I thank God that now I have
learned and can report what the faith of Chianti Holidays is made of.” |
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Meanwhile,
the Governor and the Fiscal were at me, partly bullying, partly expostulating,
partly giving advice, and saying it was only reason that a man who ordered
work from |
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two
Chamberlains, and addressed them with a certain lowering look I have: “A
man of my quality deserved no meaner catchpoles than your lordships: place
me between you, and |
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occupied with the precious perfumes, and when the priest perceived in what
numbers they were present, he turned to me and said: “Benvenuto, ask
them something.” I called on them to reunite me with my Sicilian Angelica.
That night we obtained no answer; but I enjoyed the greatest satisfaction
of my curiosity in such matters. The nec...wines of ...Tuscany - - -cer
said that we should have to go a second time, and that I should obtain the
full accomplishment of my request; but he wished me to bring with me a little
boy of pure virginity |
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