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CH. i] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 23
way of condemning Bandinello, who has founded his
own house—if it were come about from a worthy stock.
However that may be, I have no occasion to speak about
him here. When I had been there some days, my
father took me away from the said Michelagniolo, because
he could not live without seeing me constantly. Thus
with a bad grace I continued to play until I was fifteen
years of age. If I wished to describe the great events
that happened to me up to that age, and in what great
danger was my very life, it would make whoever read
of such things marvel indeed; but in order not to be
too lengthy, and because I have much to say, I will
leave them out.
When I had reached the age of fifteen years, against
the wish of my father, I apprenticed myself as a gold-
smith with a man who was called Antonio di Sandro/
however, is more inclined to endorse CELLINI'S opinion on the work
of this craftsman.
^ Antonio di Sandro di Paolo Giamberti, who matriculated into
the Goldsmith's Guild on August 3rd 1300. CARLO MiLANESi in the
ThwA: ^d^Az^ZAzzzAz Tzzwzz appended to his edition of the Az^zz/Azzy
(quoted above), under the heading Az'zzv^zzzzA Ck/A'zzz, makes the
following statement: " At the age of fifteen he went to learn the
Goldsmith's Art from AfzzjArAzz/wy/z'zzzAJAzz'Vzzz'zr^z:" but in the
text of that same work, p. 46, CELLINI himself merely says : "In my
time when I was a youth,—for at the age of fifteen I went to learn
the Art of the Goldsmith,—in that said art there was a master, who
was called AzzA/zz-rzAz? zAJ AzzvzzzrzAA. This excellent man," etc. In
our hero's own Az)A this personage is never mentioned : but in the
Az^^zz/A^ (p. 9) allusion is again made to a certain ZzzzzzzYz zfz dAfzz
AW Azzi/zzczAA, a goldsmith, who died at the age of twenty ; and in
certain documents (Azvz zAA' z^5zwzz zAA Azzzvzzz?, TASSI II, pp. 42,
43; Az?zA> zAzA? zA/ Az'/zy^zz zAA' ^IzzAAzz zzzz/Az <2zzzWz*<?7z<? zAz' YzwzW,
GUASTI, p. 699), mention is made of a certain Azz^zzzzAzz zA/
Z.zz?'zzz*zAzzz or AzzwzzzrzAA, perhaps a member of the same family.
way of condemning Bandinello, who has founded his
own house—if it were come about from a worthy stock.
However that may be, I have no occasion to speak about
him here. When I had been there some days, my
father took me away from the said Michelagniolo, because
he could not live without seeing me constantly. Thus
with a bad grace I continued to play until I was fifteen
years of age. If I wished to describe the great events
that happened to me up to that age, and in what great
danger was my very life, it would make whoever read
of such things marvel indeed; but in order not to be
too lengthy, and because I have much to say, I will
leave them out.
When I had reached the age of fifteen years, against
the wish of my father, I apprenticed myself as a gold-
smith with a man who was called Antonio di Sandro/
however, is more inclined to endorse CELLINI'S opinion on the work
of this craftsman.
^ Antonio di Sandro di Paolo Giamberti, who matriculated into
the Goldsmith's Guild on August 3rd 1300. CARLO MiLANESi in the
ThwA: ^d^Az^ZAzzzAz Tzzwzz appended to his edition of the Az^zz/Azzy
(quoted above), under the heading Az'zzv^zzzzA Ck/A'zzz, makes the
following statement: " At the age of fifteen he went to learn the
Goldsmith's Art from AfzzjArAzz/wy/z'zzzAJAzz'Vzzz'zr^z:" but in the
text of that same work, p. 46, CELLINI himself merely says : "In my
time when I was a youth,—for at the age of fifteen I went to learn
the Art of the Goldsmith,—in that said art there was a master, who
was called AzzA/zz-rzAz? zAJ AzzvzzzrzAA. This excellent man," etc. In
our hero's own Az)A this personage is never mentioned : but in the
Az^^zz/A^ (p. 9) allusion is again made to a certain ZzzzzzzYz zfz dAfzz
AW Azzi/zzczAA, a goldsmith, who died at the age of twenty ; and in
certain documents (Azvz zAA' z^5zwzz zAA Azzzvzzz?, TASSI II, pp. 42,
43; Az?zA> zAzA? zA/ Az'/zy^zz zAA' ^IzzAAzz zzzz/Az <2zzzWz*<?7z<? zAz' YzwzW,
GUASTI, p. 699), mention is made of a certain Azz^zzzzAzz zA/
Z.zz?'zzz*zAzzz or AzzwzzzrzAA, perhaps a member of the same family.