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CH. Hi] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 57
demned to (a fine of) a measure of charcoal: but in this
matter the excellent Prinzivalle wholly prevailed. So
they condemned me to a small fine of four bushels of
hour, to be bestowed in alms upon the convent of the
Murated Calling us back they immediately commanded
me not to say another word under pain of their dis-
pleasure and to obey that punishment to which I had
been condemned. So administering to me a severe re-
primand they sent us to the chancellor. But I kept on
murmuring: " It was a buffet and not a violent blow":
in such a way that the Eight burst out laughing. The
chancellor in the name of the judges ordered us both to
give securities; and they condemned me only to pay
those four bushels of Hour. It seemed to me that I had
been shamefully treated,^ nevertheless I sent for one of
my cousins, who was called Master Anniballe, the sur-
geon, the father of messer Librodoro Librodori,^ de-
QUALE VlLLARI, TZz? Zz/k %7zZ Zz77Z/?.r y 6^ZraJa77Za SavaTZaTv/a.
Translated by LlNDA VlLLARI, London, 1888; and GzAa/aTTza
Aavazza^aJa a A arzYz'aa Z/Zaaa, Firenze, 1900.
i The Murate was a convent of strictly cloistered nuns (now the
chief civil prison of Florence). Caterina de' Medici, wife of
Henri II of France, lived there in her girlhood, and Caterina
Sforza died and was buried within its walls, y. LASTRI, CAs-aT*-
wa^ara Azaz-azzAzza, Vol. V, p. 43, and PASOLINI, da/azizza A/az^a,
Roma, Loescher, 1893, Vol. Ill, pp. 548, 586-587.
^ The word used by Cellini is aayayyz'zza7a = massacred. It
betokens in the Italian of this period, "a^zvaz/azzy wrazz^*."
s Regarding these cousins of Cellini's, we have further records
in legal documents and in the testamentary dispositions of Ben-
venuto himself. Librodoro Librodori acted as proctor for the
artist in his contract with Bindo Altoviti on April 9th 1552. See
A^zzazzz AaazzzzzazzAyaz* /a SYarz'a /7a/7' ^dz-A Aazzara aaa. Ayazz/^zaa
a/7a z*aaaa/7a ^zA/zWa /fa dr. AfzYazzaaz', Siena, Torrini, 1898, p. 527,
demned to (a fine of) a measure of charcoal: but in this
matter the excellent Prinzivalle wholly prevailed. So
they condemned me to a small fine of four bushels of
hour, to be bestowed in alms upon the convent of the
Murated Calling us back they immediately commanded
me not to say another word under pain of their dis-
pleasure and to obey that punishment to which I had
been condemned. So administering to me a severe re-
primand they sent us to the chancellor. But I kept on
murmuring: " It was a buffet and not a violent blow":
in such a way that the Eight burst out laughing. The
chancellor in the name of the judges ordered us both to
give securities; and they condemned me only to pay
those four bushels of Hour. It seemed to me that I had
been shamefully treated,^ nevertheless I sent for one of
my cousins, who was called Master Anniballe, the sur-
geon, the father of messer Librodoro Librodori,^ de-
QUALE VlLLARI, TZz? Zz/k %7zZ Zz77Z/?.r y 6^ZraJa77Za SavaTZaTv/a.
Translated by LlNDA VlLLARI, London, 1888; and GzAa/aTTza
Aavazza^aJa a A arzYz'aa Z/Zaaa, Firenze, 1900.
i The Murate was a convent of strictly cloistered nuns (now the
chief civil prison of Florence). Caterina de' Medici, wife of
Henri II of France, lived there in her girlhood, and Caterina
Sforza died and was buried within its walls, y. LASTRI, CAs-aT*-
wa^ara Azaz-azzAzza, Vol. V, p. 43, and PASOLINI, da/azizza A/az^a,
Roma, Loescher, 1893, Vol. Ill, pp. 548, 586-587.
^ The word used by Cellini is aayayyz'zza7a = massacred. It
betokens in the Italian of this period, "a^zvaz/azzy wrazz^*."
s Regarding these cousins of Cellini's, we have further records
in legal documents and in the testamentary dispositions of Ben-
venuto himself. Librodoro Librodori acted as proctor for the
artist in his contract with Bindo Altoviti on April 9th 1552. See
A^zzazzz AaazzzzzazzAyaz* /a SYarz'a /7a/7' ^dz-A Aazzara aaa. Ayazz/^zaa
a/7a z*aaaa/7a ^zA/zWa /fa dr. AfzYazzaaz', Siena, Torrini, 1898, p. 527,