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44 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
begat in me so great a hatred, since I saw continually
the works of the divine Michelagniolo, that, notwith-
standing that I had conceived a desire to go with him
to England, I could not bear even to see him.
I applied myself continually in Florence to study after
the fine style of Michelagniolo, and from that I have
never deviated. At that period I commenced an inter-
course and a very close friendship with a charming youth
of my own age, who was also working in the goldsmith's
trade. He bore the name of Francesco/ son of Filippo,
the son of that most excellent painter, Fra Filippo. In
our relations with one another there arose so great an
affection that we never passed either day or night apart;
and, moreover, since his home was full of those beautiful
studies that his brilliant father had made, which consisted
of a number of books of drawings by his own hand, repre-
sentations of the fine antiquities of Rome: the which
when I saw them enchanted me very much, and for about
two years we kept company together. At this time I
executed a work in silver in low relief as large as the
hand of a small boy. This article served for the clasp of
a man's girdle, for they then wore them so big. There
was carved upon it a group of leaves, arranged after the
ancient manner, together with many small cherubs and
other very fine masks. This work I executed in the
i Filippo Lippi, commonly known as jFz7z)^z'zz^, the celebrated
Florentine painter (1457-1504), by his wife Maddalena di Pietro di
Paolo Monti had three sons: Giovan Francesco,the goldsmith ((/!
VASARI <v7., Vol. Ill, 476, note 1), Roberto, and Luigi (subse-
quently, after his father's death, styled Filippo). In the ZzYw <Y?z
1500-1507 (-^^^fvzh <YV (4T5<?7"<3 <%V Dzzczzz^zfz Vz'r<?zz^z?)
is to be found the entry of the birth of Giovanni Francesco on
May 15th 1501.
begat in me so great a hatred, since I saw continually
the works of the divine Michelagniolo, that, notwith-
standing that I had conceived a desire to go with him
to England, I could not bear even to see him.
I applied myself continually in Florence to study after
the fine style of Michelagniolo, and from that I have
never deviated. At that period I commenced an inter-
course and a very close friendship with a charming youth
of my own age, who was also working in the goldsmith's
trade. He bore the name of Francesco/ son of Filippo,
the son of that most excellent painter, Fra Filippo. In
our relations with one another there arose so great an
affection that we never passed either day or night apart;
and, moreover, since his home was full of those beautiful
studies that his brilliant father had made, which consisted
of a number of books of drawings by his own hand, repre-
sentations of the fine antiquities of Rome: the which
when I saw them enchanted me very much, and for about
two years we kept company together. At this time I
executed a work in silver in low relief as large as the
hand of a small boy. This article served for the clasp of
a man's girdle, for they then wore them so big. There
was carved upon it a group of leaves, arranged after the
ancient manner, together with many small cherubs and
other very fine masks. This work I executed in the
i Filippo Lippi, commonly known as jFz7z)^z'zz^, the celebrated
Florentine painter (1457-1504), by his wife Maddalena di Pietro di
Paolo Monti had three sons: Giovan Francesco,the goldsmith ((/!
VASARI <v7., Vol. Ill, 476, note 1), Roberto, and Luigi (subse-
quently, after his father's death, styled Filippo). In the ZzYw <Y?z
1500-1507 (-^^^fvzh <YV (4T5<?7"<3 <%V Dzzczzz^zfz Vz'r<?zz^z?)
is to be found the entry of the birth of Giovanni Francesco on
May 15th 1501.