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68 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
that clever man Lucagniolo, of whom I have spoken
above, showed that he was much displeased, saying to
me many times over that it would be far more useful and
creditable to me to help him in his work on large silver
vases, as I had begun to do. To which I replied that I
should be able, whensoever I wished, to fashion large
silver vases; but that those works upon which I was now
engaged did not come my way to do every day; and
that in these same commissions there was no less credit
to be obtained than in large silver vases, but even
much more profit. This Lucagniolo laughed at me say-
ing: "You will see, Benvenuto; for by the time that you
have finished that work of yours, I shall hasten to get
this vase finished, which I commenced when you (began)
your jewel, and by experience I will demonstrate the
profit that I shall derive from my vase, and that which
you will gain from your jewel." To which I replied that
I should willingly enjoy making such a trial with so able
a man as he was, because at the completion of such
works we should see which of us was in error. So both
of us with a slightly scornful smile bent our heads
somewhat fiercely, each of us desirous of bringing to a
completion the works that we had begun; to such pur-
pose that at the end of about ten days each of us had
completed his work with much finish and skill. That of
the said Lucagniolo was a very large vase to be used at
the table of Pope Clemente, wherein he threw whilst he
was at table, meat-bones and the rinds of various
fruits; an article made rather more for display than for
necessity. This vase was adorned with two fine handles,
with many masks, both large and small, with very
beautiful foliage, of as fine a grace and design as it
that clever man Lucagniolo, of whom I have spoken
above, showed that he was much displeased, saying to
me many times over that it would be far more useful and
creditable to me to help him in his work on large silver
vases, as I had begun to do. To which I replied that I
should be able, whensoever I wished, to fashion large
silver vases; but that those works upon which I was now
engaged did not come my way to do every day; and
that in these same commissions there was no less credit
to be obtained than in large silver vases, but even
much more profit. This Lucagniolo laughed at me say-
ing: "You will see, Benvenuto; for by the time that you
have finished that work of yours, I shall hasten to get
this vase finished, which I commenced when you (began)
your jewel, and by experience I will demonstrate the
profit that I shall derive from my vase, and that which
you will gain from your jewel." To which I replied that
I should willingly enjoy making such a trial with so able
a man as he was, because at the completion of such
works we should see which of us was in error. So both
of us with a slightly scornful smile bent our heads
somewhat fiercely, each of us desirous of bringing to a
completion the works that we had begun; to such pur-
pose that at the end of about ten days each of us had
completed his work with much finish and skill. That of
the said Lucagniolo was a very large vase to be used at
the table of Pope Clemente, wherein he threw whilst he
was at table, meat-bones and the rinds of various
fruits; an article made rather more for display than for
necessity. This vase was adorned with two fine handles,
with many masks, both large and small, with very
beautiful foliage, of as fine a grace and design as it