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CH. in] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 43
because Buonaaroti was accustomed to make fun of all
those who were drawing there, one day when the said
youth was annoying me among the rest, he aroused in
me more anger than usual/ and clenching my fist I
gave him so violent a blow upon the nose, that I felt
the bone and the cartilage of the nose break under the
stroke, as if it had been a wafer and thus marked by
me he will remain as long as he lives." These words
by Masolino da Panicale, and to him is unanimously attri-
buted Zz'zz pzzT-ZzZsY Zar^zzA. Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser
Giovanni Guidi: born at S. Giovanni Valdarno, December 21st
1401: died in 1428) then continued his master's work up to 1428,
when he went to Rome. To him may now be assigned without
doubt Z%<? Z^zzZzYzzyVrwz ZzZzz, 57. Z7ZT* ZzZZzzT^z'zzg* zZ^ Z^zZzzZ,
and .57. ZTzzz/ A^zz/zTZ^ 7%<? 5z7Z. Some of the other scenes are allotted
as much to the master as to the pupil. Some years later Filippino
Lippi completed the undertaking, and to him are attributed the
greater part of the yhyzrz Zz/^ V-57- Z7A7-.
^ VASARI does not admit the provocation given by Michelangelo
to which allusion is made here; but Torrigiani's violent temper
seems to have been well known to his contemporaries, and the
Aretine biographer, on account of this very onslaught upon Michel-
angelo, would probably be as much prejudiced against him as
Cellini was. From England he went to Spain, but the story of his
destruction of his own statue of our Lady and consequent imprison-
ment by the Inquisition seems, in the light of modern research, to
be apocryphal; as also the legend of his suicide in prison in 1522 (?),
(<y VASARI MlLANESI <rz7., Vol. IV, pp. 255-64. On this point
see also PLON ryk cz7., pp. 6-7.) CONDivi, in his Zz/<? <y AfzkZzZzxzz^A?
ZzrrvzzzTTWz, records this story, but calls the offender "Torrigiano,''
instead of " Piero." He describes him as zz<777zz? 7^s7z4Z <? jayk?7Z<?,
and says he was for this reason " banished from Florence " (M<37zZz7f
7^7* yzr^Zz? 4z ZY7V7Z.&?), and " came to a bad end" 77z%Az
77ZC7*Z).
^ ZzWZpzz^ = a sort of wafer rolled up in the form of a horn,
such as is served to-day in Italy to accompany whipped cream
(y5%7Z7Z% 77Z<77ZMZz).
because Buonaaroti was accustomed to make fun of all
those who were drawing there, one day when the said
youth was annoying me among the rest, he aroused in
me more anger than usual/ and clenching my fist I
gave him so violent a blow upon the nose, that I felt
the bone and the cartilage of the nose break under the
stroke, as if it had been a wafer and thus marked by
me he will remain as long as he lives." These words
by Masolino da Panicale, and to him is unanimously attri-
buted Zz'zz pzzT-ZzZsY Zar^zzA. Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser
Giovanni Guidi: born at S. Giovanni Valdarno, December 21st
1401: died in 1428) then continued his master's work up to 1428,
when he went to Rome. To him may now be assigned without
doubt Z%<? Z^zzZzYzzyVrwz ZzZzz, 57. Z7ZT* ZzZZzzT^z'zzg* zZ^ Z^zZzzZ,
and .57. ZTzzz/ A^zz/zTZ^ 7%<? 5z7Z. Some of the other scenes are allotted
as much to the master as to the pupil. Some years later Filippino
Lippi completed the undertaking, and to him are attributed the
greater part of the yhyzrz Zz/^ V-57- Z7A7-.
^ VASARI does not admit the provocation given by Michelangelo
to which allusion is made here; but Torrigiani's violent temper
seems to have been well known to his contemporaries, and the
Aretine biographer, on account of this very onslaught upon Michel-
angelo, would probably be as much prejudiced against him as
Cellini was. From England he went to Spain, but the story of his
destruction of his own statue of our Lady and consequent imprison-
ment by the Inquisition seems, in the light of modern research, to
be apocryphal; as also the legend of his suicide in prison in 1522 (?),
(<y VASARI MlLANESI <rz7., Vol. IV, pp. 255-64. On this point
see also PLON ryk cz7., pp. 6-7.) CONDivi, in his Zz/<? <y AfzkZzZzxzz^A?
ZzrrvzzzTTWz, records this story, but calls the offender "Torrigiano,''
instead of " Piero." He describes him as zz<777zz? 7^s7z4Z <? jayk?7Z<?,
and says he was for this reason " banished from Florence " (M<37zZz7f
7^7* yzr^Zz? 4z ZY7V7Z.&?), and " came to a bad end" 77z%Az
77ZC7*Z).
^ ZzWZpzz^ = a sort of wafer rolled up in the form of a horn,
such as is served to-day in Italy to accompany whipped cream
(y5%7Z7Z% 77Z<77ZMZz).