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CH. i] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI n
years his said wife miscarried of two male children,
through want of skill on the part of the doctors; then she
conceived again, and brought forth a girl, to whom they
gave the name of Cosa/ after my father's mother. Then
two years later she conceived again; and because those
desires which come to pregnant women, upon which they
set so much faith, were exactly similar to those at her
previous confinement; to such an extent, that they were
convinced that she would bring forth another girl like
the first; they had agreed to give her the name of
Reparata to recall my mother's mother. It happened
that the birth took place on the night of All Hallows, at
the end of All Saints' Day, at half-past four of the
clock" in the year 1500 precisely/ The midwife, who
knew that they expected a girl, when she had washed
the infant, swathed it in very fine white cloths, and went
softly to my father Giovanni, and said: " I bring you a
fine gift such as you do not expect." My FATHER, who
was a true philosopher, was walking up and down, and he
said: "Whatever God gives me that will alwaybe ac-
ceptable to me"; and having lifted the cloths he saw
^ is Florentine for TVzcrzz/r'Jzz. She was born in 1499 and
died in 1538, having entered the Ursuline Convent in Florence.
^ In mediaeval Italy the hours were reckoned from the sunset of
one day to the sunset of the next. Twenty-two o'clock would there-
fore mean " two hours before sunset." This method of reckoning,
which is fixed by the ringing of the Angelus, is still in common use
among the Tuscan peasantry.
3 The entry of Cellini's birth runs as follows: "Hrr^z'vzh zA/7'
.Ozzzwzz? OyvA Azz^A^zz/z* zfzzJ 1488 <3/ 1500) .
1500. .SzvzwzzzzA' Cz*zh/<yhzzz7 z? Azwzzz/z? zfz Czhz/zzzzzzz zf'y^zzzfzvzz zfz
Crzk/<yhzzo C<?//z'zzz rfz ^<37^72.277 zzzzryzz^ zr 3 zfz' (Ahwzzzz^zv)
<%<?7V yzzzzzVrz? <? 1" yzzzzzVz?." The 3rd of November was a Tuesday.
He was baptized the same day.
years his said wife miscarried of two male children,
through want of skill on the part of the doctors; then she
conceived again, and brought forth a girl, to whom they
gave the name of Cosa/ after my father's mother. Then
two years later she conceived again; and because those
desires which come to pregnant women, upon which they
set so much faith, were exactly similar to those at her
previous confinement; to such an extent, that they were
convinced that she would bring forth another girl like
the first; they had agreed to give her the name of
Reparata to recall my mother's mother. It happened
that the birth took place on the night of All Hallows, at
the end of All Saints' Day, at half-past four of the
clock" in the year 1500 precisely/ The midwife, who
knew that they expected a girl, when she had washed
the infant, swathed it in very fine white cloths, and went
softly to my father Giovanni, and said: " I bring you a
fine gift such as you do not expect." My FATHER, who
was a true philosopher, was walking up and down, and he
said: "Whatever God gives me that will alwaybe ac-
ceptable to me"; and having lifted the cloths he saw
^ is Florentine for TVzcrzz/r'Jzz. She was born in 1499 and
died in 1538, having entered the Ursuline Convent in Florence.
^ In mediaeval Italy the hours were reckoned from the sunset of
one day to the sunset of the next. Twenty-two o'clock would there-
fore mean " two hours before sunset." This method of reckoning,
which is fixed by the ringing of the Angelus, is still in common use
among the Tuscan peasantry.
3 The entry of Cellini's birth runs as follows: "Hrr^z'vzh zA/7'
.Ozzzwzz? OyvA Azz^A^zz/z* zfzzJ 1488 <3/ 1500) .
1500. .SzvzwzzzzA' Cz*zh/<yhzzz7 z? Azwzzz/z? zfz Czhz/zzzzzzz zf'y^zzzfzvzz zfz
Crzk/<yhzzo C<?//z'zzz rfz ^<37^72.277 zzzzryzz^ zr 3 zfz' (Ahwzzzz^zv)
<%<?7V yzzzzzVrz? <? 1" yzzzzzVz?." The 3rd of November was a Tuesday.
He was baptized the same day.