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58 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
siring that he would go surety for me. This man, how-
ever, did not choose to come, at which I was very
indignant: fuming I became like an adder, and took a
desperate resolution. [It is well known how much
the planets do not only guide, but even coerce us.] *
Recollecting what great obligation this Anniballe owed
to my family, my fury so much the more increased
that it turned everything to evil, and being besides by
nature somewhat hot-tempered, I composed myself
to wait in that office until the Eight had adjourned
for dinner. And whilst I remained there alone, ob-
serving that none of the attendants of the Eight were
watching me any longer, bursting with rage, I issued
from the palace, ran to my workshop, where, having
found a small poniard, I sprang into the dwelling of my
adversaries, who were both in their shop and their housed
I found them at table, and the young Gherardo, who
had been the original cause of the trouble, threw himself
upon me: to whom I struck a blow with my poniard in
the breast, so that it passed right through his frock (y^zb)
and jerkin (<rVA^) to his shirt, without touching his flesh
or doing him any sort of harm. Since it appeared to
me from the disappearance of my hand and the sound
made by his clothes that I had wounded him very seri-
ously, and he fell terrified to the ground, I cried out:
" Traitors! To-day is the opportunity for me to kill you
all." The father, mother and sisters believing that it
was the Day of Judgement, immediately flung them-
and the editions of CELLINI'S literary works by CARPANI, TASSi,
and GUASTI.
* d/i Chap. XXIV,
2 This probably means that the house the shop.
siring that he would go surety for me. This man, how-
ever, did not choose to come, at which I was very
indignant: fuming I became like an adder, and took a
desperate resolution. [It is well known how much
the planets do not only guide, but even coerce us.] *
Recollecting what great obligation this Anniballe owed
to my family, my fury so much the more increased
that it turned everything to evil, and being besides by
nature somewhat hot-tempered, I composed myself
to wait in that office until the Eight had adjourned
for dinner. And whilst I remained there alone, ob-
serving that none of the attendants of the Eight were
watching me any longer, bursting with rage, I issued
from the palace, ran to my workshop, where, having
found a small poniard, I sprang into the dwelling of my
adversaries, who were both in their shop and their housed
I found them at table, and the young Gherardo, who
had been the original cause of the trouble, threw himself
upon me: to whom I struck a blow with my poniard in
the breast, so that it passed right through his frock (y^zb)
and jerkin (<rVA^) to his shirt, without touching his flesh
or doing him any sort of harm. Since it appeared to
me from the disappearance of my hand and the sound
made by his clothes that I had wounded him very seri-
ously, and he fell terrified to the ground, I cried out:
" Traitors! To-day is the opportunity for me to kill you
all." The father, mother and sisters believing that it
was the Day of Judgement, immediately flung them-
and the editions of CELLINI'S literary works by CARPANI, TASSi,
and GUASTI.
* d/i Chap. XXIV,
2 This probably means that the house the shop.