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8 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
sides joined in, and it was seen that a fire had been
ignited of such magnitude, that it was bringing danger
of total destruction to both families; the elder members
having pondered upon this point, by agreement, my
side removed Christofano; and so the other side took
away the other originator of the feud. They sent their
man to Siena; ours sent Christofano to Florence, and
there they purchased for him a small house in the Via
Chiara' from the monastery of Sant' Orsola; and they
also bought him some very good lands at Ponte a
PL*"' zfz V 6Tw. zfz'YY7V77.3V ^ y. N/y/h7zz7 z'zz P<37z^—747.7^^. 8. Ben-
venuto is probably wrong, however, in saying that his great-grand-
father was the first of the family to come to Florence. Documentary
evidence points to Andrea, his grandfather, as the earliest of their
line resident within the city boundaries, and that subsequent to
146$. His name is to be found in the Income Tax Register for 1487
<Yz Nz27zY3 AAzrz'zz Vz'vzkrz? <Yz' bzzzz <Tziw%;wzz' <Yz
AY7-V7Z.3V, 7$<yW<9 <Yz ^z777/c Zz77V77F<7 Y^TZZ*)? Y? 77ZZZ7'<2 <Yz Abv7Z.3'%).
1 This house may still be seen in what was once the Via Chiara,
and is still so styled, though it now forms one side of the new
Market. It was formerly numbered 5078, but is now No. 6, and
bears the following inscription: Trz yzz^y/zz zwz; 7z<%ryzzz? AYzzwTzzzzT?
6W/Z7ZZ zY zYz 7^7*7777^7 <Yz* 7ZCW77ZY7V I $00 <7 777 7 7^7V 777z' <2777ZZ*.
PROF. BACCI further quotes references to a variety of documents
concerning this property. In the Income Tax Return for 1471, for
the Quarter of San Lorenzo "wzY^z'77 Yvz^zFzz HGz/Y," Andrea
Cellini is stated to be forty-four years of age and his wife Cosa
(AYcr^iDrT) likewise forty-four. Andrea's mother was also then still
living, aged seventy-five. In the Return for 1487 (referred to in the
last note) Andrea's age is given at sixty-six, and mention is made
of the following sons: Bartolomeo, aged forty-nine (who ten years
earlier had gone to Hungary with) a younger brother, Francesco,
aged twenty-four, and Giovanni, aged thirty-six. No allusion is
made, however, to Girolamo (the third, 7ZgY zAYz-sY brother) who
is recorded in the Return for 1471 as being then thirteen; so per-
haps he was dead. Andrea's first wife, Niccolosa, must also have
been dead, for the document records a certain Lisabetta, aged
sides joined in, and it was seen that a fire had been
ignited of such magnitude, that it was bringing danger
of total destruction to both families; the elder members
having pondered upon this point, by agreement, my
side removed Christofano; and so the other side took
away the other originator of the feud. They sent their
man to Siena; ours sent Christofano to Florence, and
there they purchased for him a small house in the Via
Chiara' from the monastery of Sant' Orsola; and they
also bought him some very good lands at Ponte a
PL*"' zfz V 6Tw. zfz'YY7V77.3V ^ y. N/y/h7zz7 z'zz P<37z^—747.7^^. 8. Ben-
venuto is probably wrong, however, in saying that his great-grand-
father was the first of the family to come to Florence. Documentary
evidence points to Andrea, his grandfather, as the earliest of their
line resident within the city boundaries, and that subsequent to
146$. His name is to be found in the Income Tax Register for 1487
<Yz Nz27zY3 AAzrz'zz Vz'vzkrz? <Yz' bzzzz <Tziw%;wzz' <Yz
AY7-V7Z.3V, 7$<yW<9 <Yz ^z777/c Zz77V77F<7 Y^TZZ*)? Y? 77ZZZ7'<2 <Yz Abv7Z.3'%).
1 This house may still be seen in what was once the Via Chiara,
and is still so styled, though it now forms one side of the new
Market. It was formerly numbered 5078, but is now No. 6, and
bears the following inscription: Trz yzz^y/zz zwz; 7z<%ryzzz? AYzzwTzzzzT?
6W/Z7ZZ zY zYz 7^7*7777^7 <Yz* 7ZCW77ZY7V I $00 <7 777 7 7^7V 777z' <2777ZZ*.
PROF. BACCI further quotes references to a variety of documents
concerning this property. In the Income Tax Return for 1471, for
the Quarter of San Lorenzo "wzY^z'77 Yvz^zFzz HGz/Y," Andrea
Cellini is stated to be forty-four years of age and his wife Cosa
(AYcr^iDrT) likewise forty-four. Andrea's mother was also then still
living, aged seventy-five. In the Return for 1487 (referred to in the
last note) Andrea's age is given at sixty-six, and mention is made
of the following sons: Bartolomeo, aged forty-nine (who ten years
earlier had gone to Hungary with) a younger brother, Francesco,
aged twenty-four, and Giovanni, aged thirty-six. No allusion is
made, however, to Girolamo (the third, 7ZgY zAYz-sY brother) who
is recorded in the Return for 1471 as being then thirteen; so per-
haps he was dead. Andrea's first wife, Niccolosa, must also have
been dead, for the document records a certain Lisabetta, aged