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CH. i] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI
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my father did not disdain to practise such a profession.
The greatest desire that he had in the world regarding
my prospects was that I should become a great musician:
the greatest annoyance that I could have in the world
was when he argued with me, telling me that, if I liked,
he saw so much promise in me in that respect, that I
might be the first performer in the world. As I have
said, my father was a great adherent and most friendly
towards the house of Medici; and when Piero was ex-
pelled/ he entrusted to my father a great many matters of
serious import. Later on, at the coming into power of the
magnificent Piero Soderini/ my father being still in
his post of musician, Soderini, being aware of my father's
remarkable genius, began to employ him as engineer^ in
many and varied vicissitudes, as may be learnt from CAPPONi, X/.
V. Lib. Ill, C. 6, and Lib. IV, C. 6, and^zzyj'zyyz; PERRENS,
/7L/. V<? W<?7*., VI, 307, and yLzYfAz; and DEL LuNGO, I,
pp. 11, 1056; II, $0.
i This was the second expulsion of the Medici and occurred on
November $th 1494.
^ He was the only perpetual ever chosen by the
Florentine people, and was elected by them in September 1502.
He only remained in office until 1512, in which year he was deposed
and banished. AMMIRATO, X/<?rLz, Lib. XXVIII; and RAZZi,
3 Giovanni Cellini's real profession, it should be remembered,
was that of an GuASTi records how on February 28th
1505 a commission was given him for the construction of a scaf-
folding* for Leonardo da Vinci, for use in painting the great
fresco of the zyH72jp%3'<37v'(i44o), in the Sala del Consiglio
of the Palazzo Vecchio, (z/i GAYE, ecc. II, p. 89); and it
is thought possible that another scaffolding may also have been made
by him, described by VASARI as <2VyAzh jA'w'zzz0, cA Vyz'yz-
j^zz&'A? FzzAzzwz, zz/Azz^,Rzzzzz'<9X Pzz^AzYSYzz'g (" a most clever con-
trivance, which by contracting could be raised and by broadening
lowered"), used also by Leonardo in designing the said cartoon;
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my father did not disdain to practise such a profession.
The greatest desire that he had in the world regarding
my prospects was that I should become a great musician:
the greatest annoyance that I could have in the world
was when he argued with me, telling me that, if I liked,
he saw so much promise in me in that respect, that I
might be the first performer in the world. As I have
said, my father was a great adherent and most friendly
towards the house of Medici; and when Piero was ex-
pelled/ he entrusted to my father a great many matters of
serious import. Later on, at the coming into power of the
magnificent Piero Soderini/ my father being still in
his post of musician, Soderini, being aware of my father's
remarkable genius, began to employ him as engineer^ in
many and varied vicissitudes, as may be learnt from CAPPONi, X/.
V. Lib. Ill, C. 6, and Lib. IV, C. 6, and^zzyj'zyyz; PERRENS,
/7L/. V<? W<?7*., VI, 307, and yLzYfAz; and DEL LuNGO, I,
pp. 11, 1056; II, $0.
i This was the second expulsion of the Medici and occurred on
November $th 1494.
^ He was the only perpetual ever chosen by the
Florentine people, and was elected by them in September 1502.
He only remained in office until 1512, in which year he was deposed
and banished. AMMIRATO, X/<?rLz, Lib. XXVIII; and RAZZi,
3 Giovanni Cellini's real profession, it should be remembered,
was that of an GuASTi records how on February 28th
1505 a commission was given him for the construction of a scaf-
folding* for Leonardo da Vinci, for use in painting the great
fresco of the zyH72jp%3'<37v'(i44o), in the Sala del Consiglio
of the Palazzo Vecchio, (z/i GAYE, ecc. II, p. 89); and it
is thought possible that another scaffolding may also have been made
by him, described by VASARI as <2VyAzh jA'w'zzz0, cA Vyz'yz-
j^zz&'A? FzzAzzwz, zz/Azz^,Rzzzzz'<9X Pzz^AzYSYzz'g (" a most clever con-
trivance, which by contracting could be raised and by broadening
lowered"), used also by Leonardo in designing the said cartoon;
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