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50 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
suiting expressions: whereat I took up my parable in
defence of my new master. I told him that I had been
born a free man, and thus free I meant to live; and
that he had no reason to complain of his conduct, still
less of me, for there remained in his hands a few
due upon our contract: and that as a free journeyman I
wished to go where I liked: knowing that I did wrong
to no man. My new master also made a few remarks,
stating that he had not summoned me, and that I should
oblige him by returning with Firenzuola. To this I re-
joined that I was not aware that I had done wrong in any
way, and since I had finished the work that I had begun,
I wished to be at my own disposal and not at that of any-
one else, and whoever wanted my services might ask me
for them. To this Firenzuola replied: "I have no wish
to ask anything further of you, and never upon any
account do you come into my presence." I reminded
him of the money due to me. He began to jeer at me;
upon which I replied, that just as I could manipulate
my tools upon the jobs that he had seen, was I not less
skilful with my sword for the recovery of my dues. At
these words there stopped by chance an elderly man,
who was called Master Antonio da Sanmarinod This
^ This Antonio di Paolo de' Fabbri da San Marino was not only
a most brilliant craftsman, but also very expert in public matters.
He held various appointments from his native Republic at the
Court of Rome; and he was one of the heirs of Raphael to the
building-land in the Via Giulia, bought by that painter on March
20th 1520 from Leonardo Bartolini. For further information re-
garding him BERTOLOTTI, L?7'A'Vz Z<2777^7^7fz czL, Vol. I, p. 271;
6*22^^2722 rz'L, p. 235 ; GIROLAMO AMATI, 7"<7772<272,?
rfz AAwzc, Roma, 1872; M. DELFico, SA?. 7^. zfz
A Af^T-z'w, 4th ed. Napoli, Nobile, 1865, p. 19. In the (Ahr/zzzT?
suiting expressions: whereat I took up my parable in
defence of my new master. I told him that I had been
born a free man, and thus free I meant to live; and
that he had no reason to complain of his conduct, still
less of me, for there remained in his hands a few
due upon our contract: and that as a free journeyman I
wished to go where I liked: knowing that I did wrong
to no man. My new master also made a few remarks,
stating that he had not summoned me, and that I should
oblige him by returning with Firenzuola. To this I re-
joined that I was not aware that I had done wrong in any
way, and since I had finished the work that I had begun,
I wished to be at my own disposal and not at that of any-
one else, and whoever wanted my services might ask me
for them. To this Firenzuola replied: "I have no wish
to ask anything further of you, and never upon any
account do you come into my presence." I reminded
him of the money due to me. He began to jeer at me;
upon which I replied, that just as I could manipulate
my tools upon the jobs that he had seen, was I not less
skilful with my sword for the recovery of my dues. At
these words there stopped by chance an elderly man,
who was called Master Antonio da Sanmarinod This
^ This Antonio di Paolo de' Fabbri da San Marino was not only
a most brilliant craftsman, but also very expert in public matters.
He held various appointments from his native Republic at the
Court of Rome; and he was one of the heirs of Raphael to the
building-land in the Via Giulia, bought by that painter on March
20th 1520 from Leonardo Bartolini. For further information re-
garding him BERTOLOTTI, L?7'A'Vz Z<2777^7^7fz czL, Vol. I, p. 271;
6*22^^2722 rz'L, p. 235 ; GIROLAMO AMATI, 7"<7772<272,?
rfz AAwzc, Roma, 1872; M. DELFico, SA?. 7^. zfz
A Af^T-z'w, 4th ed. Napoli, Nobile, 1865, p. 19. In the (Ahr/zzzT?