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LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
of the goldsmith's trade, and executed many commis-
sions): to such an extent, that when I saw that they
were injuring me, I complained to a certain worthy man,
saying that those knaveries ought to have sufficed, which
they exhibited towards me under the cloak of the trea-
cherous good will displayed by them. When this remark
reached their ears they boasted that they would make
me greatly repent such a speech; to which I who knew
not the colour of lear paid little or no attention. One day
it chanced that as I was leaning against the shop of one
of them, he called out to me, partly rebuking, and partly
defying me. To which I replied that if they had done
their duty by me I should have spoken those things of
them that one says of good and worthy persons: but since
they had done the opposite the fault lay with them and
not with me. Whilst I stood arguing, one of them, who
was called Gherardo Guasconti, their cousin, instigated
perhaps by their common consent, spied a beast of burden
that was passing. (It was a beast laden with bricks.)
When the said load came up to me, Gherardo pushed it
on to me in such a way that it hurt me very much.
Turning myself round suddenly and seeing him laugh-
ing, I struck him such a blow on one of his temples
that he fell down insensible as though dead. Then I
turned to his cousins and said: "Thus do they treat
cowardly thieves like you." And upon their wishing to
make some attack upon me, because there were many of
him another twelve bushels of hour for having, in company with
Giovanni di Ser Matteo Rigoli, committed certain acts of indecency
to the injury of one Domenico di Ser Giuliano da Ripa. This
Giovanni Rigoli is perhaps the same person whom CELLINI desig-
nates later on as "77p/ <3%?<27vW and d/1
Chap. V, p. 101, and Chap. VIII, p. 159.
LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
of the goldsmith's trade, and executed many commis-
sions): to such an extent, that when I saw that they
were injuring me, I complained to a certain worthy man,
saying that those knaveries ought to have sufficed, which
they exhibited towards me under the cloak of the trea-
cherous good will displayed by them. When this remark
reached their ears they boasted that they would make
me greatly repent such a speech; to which I who knew
not the colour of lear paid little or no attention. One day
it chanced that as I was leaning against the shop of one
of them, he called out to me, partly rebuking, and partly
defying me. To which I replied that if they had done
their duty by me I should have spoken those things of
them that one says of good and worthy persons: but since
they had done the opposite the fault lay with them and
not with me. Whilst I stood arguing, one of them, who
was called Gherardo Guasconti, their cousin, instigated
perhaps by their common consent, spied a beast of burden
that was passing. (It was a beast laden with bricks.)
When the said load came up to me, Gherardo pushed it
on to me in such a way that it hurt me very much.
Turning myself round suddenly and seeing him laugh-
ing, I struck him such a blow on one of his temples
that he fell down insensible as though dead. Then I
turned to his cousins and said: "Thus do they treat
cowardly thieves like you." And upon their wishing to
make some attack upon me, because there were many of
him another twelve bushels of hour for having, in company with
Giovanni di Ser Matteo Rigoli, committed certain acts of indecency
to the injury of one Domenico di Ser Giuliano da Ripa. This
Giovanni Rigoli is perhaps the same person whom CELLINI desig-
nates later on as "77p/ <3%?<27vW and d/1
Chap. V, p. 101, and Chap. VIII, p. 159.