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60 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
seif for the Love of God, that he would save my life, lor
I had committed a great fault. The good friar told me
that I need fear nothing; for though I had committed all
the crimes in the world, I should be most safe in his little
cell. In the space of about an hour the Eight, having
summoned an extraordinary meeting, directed the pub-
lication of one of the most terrifying of bans that was ever
heard against me, placing under the severest penalties
whoever should harbour or know me, regarding neither
the place nor the quality of any one who should protect
me. My poor afflicted and excellent father going in to the
Eight, threw himself upon his knees on the ground, im-
ploring mercy for his poor young son: whereupon one
of those democrats ^ tossing back the crest of his twisted-
up hood, and rising to his feet, with some insulting words
said to my poor father: " Get up and go away instantly,
lest we send you to-morrow to the gallows." ^ My poor
father, nevertheless, boldly answered them, saying,
" What God shall have ordained such will be done and
no more." Upon which the same man replied, that for
certain God had ordained it thus. And my father said to
him: " I take comfort to myself that you certainly don't
know that;" and having gone out of their presence, he
came to see me in company with a certain youth of my
own age, who was called Piero di Giovanni LandiL (we
loved each other more than if we had been brothers).
i vdTTVw/Azz'z was another nickname applied to the party of
Reform in Florence. See above p. 56.
^ /zz wz'z7<z 0973 3 AwrzcZYz' is a proverbial expression common in
Florence at that date, signifying z*<? & ^73/ z*o <?-xv<rzzz'zb7z.
3 This youth is spoken of more than once by Cellini in terms of
affection. (7/- Chap. VIII, p. 161. Chap. XVIII, p. 329.
seif for the Love of God, that he would save my life, lor
I had committed a great fault. The good friar told me
that I need fear nothing; for though I had committed all
the crimes in the world, I should be most safe in his little
cell. In the space of about an hour the Eight, having
summoned an extraordinary meeting, directed the pub-
lication of one of the most terrifying of bans that was ever
heard against me, placing under the severest penalties
whoever should harbour or know me, regarding neither
the place nor the quality of any one who should protect
me. My poor afflicted and excellent father going in to the
Eight, threw himself upon his knees on the ground, im-
ploring mercy for his poor young son: whereupon one
of those democrats ^ tossing back the crest of his twisted-
up hood, and rising to his feet, with some insulting words
said to my poor father: " Get up and go away instantly,
lest we send you to-morrow to the gallows." ^ My poor
father, nevertheless, boldly answered them, saying,
" What God shall have ordained such will be done and
no more." Upon which the same man replied, that for
certain God had ordained it thus. And my father said to
him: " I take comfort to myself that you certainly don't
know that;" and having gone out of their presence, he
came to see me in company with a certain youth of my
own age, who was called Piero di Giovanni LandiL (we
loved each other more than if we had been brothers).
i vdTTVw/Azz'z was another nickname applied to the party of
Reform in Florence. See above p. 56.
^ /zz wz'z7<z 0973 3 AwrzcZYz' is a proverbial expression common in
Florence at that date, signifying z*<? & ^73/ z*o <?-xv<rzzz'zb7z.
3 This youth is spoken of more than once by Cellini in terms of
affection. (7/- Chap. VIII, p. 161. Chap. XVIII, p. 329.