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CH. in] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 49
gizing it and exhibiting it throughout the trade, because
so weii-executed an object should have issued from his
workshop. It was about half a in size; and was
arranged to serve as a salt-cellar, to be kept upon the
table. This was the first-fruits of the earnings that I tasted
in Rome: and one portion of these same earnings I
forwarded to the assistance of my good lather. The other
portion I reserved to live upon myself: and with it I
went about studying the remains of antiquity until my
funds came to an end when it suited me to return to the
shop to work. My comrade, Battista del Tasso, did not
stay long in Rome, but returned to Florence. Having
taken up again fresh work, the desire came upon me,
when I had completed what I had on hand, to change
my employer, being seduced thereto by a certain Milan-
ese, who was called Master Pagholo Arsago/ My
former master Firenzuola raised a great disturbance
with this Arsago, uttering in my presence certain in-
i From BERTOLOTTI (<?^5. <rz7., Vo!. I, p. 242, and ^frz*z'Vz FzrAzz^z'zzz
z'zz Awzzz, Mantova 1884, p. 114) we !earn a few facts concerning
this craftsman. His shop was situated close to the little church of
Sand Eligio (the patron of goldsmiths). He is recorded as a
member of the Goldsmiths' Guild on June 25th 1516, and he was
involved in a lawsuit in 1521 with one Federigo Musta. From his
Will, dated October 1 $th 1522, we learn that he lived at Pellegrino;
that he was the brother of Girolamo Arsago; that his wife's name
was Elisabetta de Vinciis; and that he desired to be buried in the
church of San Lorenzo in Damaso. He appears to have died
before 1563. For further information regarding the Guild of Gold-
smiths in Rome, and specially in reference to Cellini's dealings
with Firenzuola, Arsago and others, qd SIDNEY CHURCHILL,
A*^zzwzzzz2<? (Vz7z'7zz, z*^g Gzz7*zzzfoyy<?y, zzzzzf AAzjAzr Grzz/?jzzz^zz <?/*
Czzz'Af CoAA772z'4%Jz?/" Azz/zHn dA?7z%A,%4/h?7zy%7* AfzzTzy/wz'y-
y^TZir^zy?, 1908. Klinkhardt und Biermann, Leipzig.
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gizing it and exhibiting it throughout the trade, because
so weii-executed an object should have issued from his
workshop. It was about half a in size; and was
arranged to serve as a salt-cellar, to be kept upon the
table. This was the first-fruits of the earnings that I tasted
in Rome: and one portion of these same earnings I
forwarded to the assistance of my good lather. The other
portion I reserved to live upon myself: and with it I
went about studying the remains of antiquity until my
funds came to an end when it suited me to return to the
shop to work. My comrade, Battista del Tasso, did not
stay long in Rome, but returned to Florence. Having
taken up again fresh work, the desire came upon me,
when I had completed what I had on hand, to change
my employer, being seduced thereto by a certain Milan-
ese, who was called Master Pagholo Arsago/ My
former master Firenzuola raised a great disturbance
with this Arsago, uttering in my presence certain in-
i From BERTOLOTTI (<?^5. <rz7., Vo!. I, p. 242, and ^frz*z'Vz FzrAzz^z'zzz
z'zz Awzzz, Mantova 1884, p. 114) we !earn a few facts concerning
this craftsman. His shop was situated close to the little church of
Sand Eligio (the patron of goldsmiths). He is recorded as a
member of the Goldsmiths' Guild on June 25th 1516, and he was
involved in a lawsuit in 1521 with one Federigo Musta. From his
Will, dated October 1 $th 1522, we learn that he lived at Pellegrino;
that he was the brother of Girolamo Arsago; that his wife's name
was Elisabetta de Vinciis; and that he desired to be buried in the
church of San Lorenzo in Damaso. He appears to have died
before 1563. For further information regarding the Guild of Gold-
smiths in Rome, and specially in reference to Cellini's dealings
with Firenzuola, Arsago and others, qd SIDNEY CHURCHILL,
A*^zzwzzzz2<? (Vz7z'7zz, z*^g Gzz7*zzzfoyy<?y, zzzzzf AAzjAzr Grzz/?jzzz^zz <?/*
Czzz'Af CoAA772z'4%Jz?/" Azz/zHn dA?7z%A,%4/h?7zy%7* AfzzTzy/wz'y-
y^TZir^zy?, 1908. Klinkhardt und Biermann, Leipzig.
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