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CH. iv] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 65
said bishop, he set me high in his favour, to such pur-
pose that I received a great many commissions from this
bishop, and earned a great deal of money d At that period
I went to draw sometimes in the Chapel of Michel-
agniolo,^ and sometimes at the house of Agostino Chigi,
the Sienese, in which house there were many very
beautiful works of painting by the hand of the most
excellent Raffaello da Urbinod But this was on feast-
days, because in the said house there was residing Misser
Gismondo Chigi, brother of the said Misser Agostino.
They (the family of Chigi) took much pride in seeing
young men like myself going to study within their
walls. The wife of the said Misser Gismondo ^ saw me
* This sentence is translated exactly as it runs in the original as
an example of CELLINI'S jerky style, taken down by his amanuensis
evidently as he rattled along.
^ The Cappella Sistina in the Vatican.
s The Villa Farnesina in the Trastevere, built by the wealthy
Sienese banker, Agostino Chigi (V ZVAz r/VVAoMZi)
between 1508 and 1511. In accordance with a passage in VASARI
it was long supposed to have been built after designs by Baldassare
Peruzzi; but recently this statement has been much questioned and
the probable author is now supposed to have been Raphael him-
self. It contained many wonderful works of art, notably Raphael's
frescoes of CzzAzAa and of the ZhbA V CzyVV <372 <7 and
Bazzi (Sodoma's) SY<??y V A/tAtrawzz. It was called
the Farnesina when it came into the possession of Cardinal Ales-
sandro Farnese in 1580. It subsequently passed to the Kings of
Naples. For details concerning this beautiful palace r/i BIGOT,
^ /<3 Paris, 1884; GEYMULLER, /CyThg/'/b
Milano, 1884; A. CUGNONi, C%zyz' Af^y^z/Zv,
Roma, 1881; A. VENTURI, Za ZbTvzArzzza, Rome, 1890; R. FOER-
STER, 7h27V2As-27M F^zzzfzbzz, Rostock, 1880, and others.
^ CELLINI is in error here. Sigismondo Chigi married on March
31st 1507 Zzz^zbzb, the second daughter of Pandolfo Petrucci of
Siena; and not ZbTVz'%. Portia was Sulpicia's younger sister, who,
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said bishop, he set me high in his favour, to such pur-
pose that I received a great many commissions from this
bishop, and earned a great deal of money d At that period
I went to draw sometimes in the Chapel of Michel-
agniolo,^ and sometimes at the house of Agostino Chigi,
the Sienese, in which house there were many very
beautiful works of painting by the hand of the most
excellent Raffaello da Urbinod But this was on feast-
days, because in the said house there was residing Misser
Gismondo Chigi, brother of the said Misser Agostino.
They (the family of Chigi) took much pride in seeing
young men like myself going to study within their
walls. The wife of the said Misser Gismondo ^ saw me
* This sentence is translated exactly as it runs in the original as
an example of CELLINI'S jerky style, taken down by his amanuensis
evidently as he rattled along.
^ The Cappella Sistina in the Vatican.
s The Villa Farnesina in the Trastevere, built by the wealthy
Sienese banker, Agostino Chigi (V ZVAz r/VVAoMZi)
between 1508 and 1511. In accordance with a passage in VASARI
it was long supposed to have been built after designs by Baldassare
Peruzzi; but recently this statement has been much questioned and
the probable author is now supposed to have been Raphael him-
self. It contained many wonderful works of art, notably Raphael's
frescoes of CzzAzAa and of the ZhbA V CzyVV <372 <7 and
Bazzi (Sodoma's) SY<??y V A/tAtrawzz. It was called
the Farnesina when it came into the possession of Cardinal Ales-
sandro Farnese in 1580. It subsequently passed to the Kings of
Naples. For details concerning this beautiful palace r/i BIGOT,
^ /<3 Paris, 1884; GEYMULLER, /CyThg/'/b
Milano, 1884; A. CUGNONi, C%zyz' Af^y^z/Zv,
Roma, 1881; A. VENTURI, Za ZbTvzArzzza, Rome, 1890; R. FOER-
STER, 7h27V2As-27M F^zzzfzbzz, Rostock, 1880, and others.
^ CELLINI is in error here. Sigismondo Chigi married on March
31st 1507 Zzz^zbzb, the second daughter of Pandolfo Petrucci of
Siena; and not ZbTVz'%. Portia was Sulpicia's younger sister, who,
I. F