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LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
since they were so well paid for. Not less indignantly
did I retort that every bird sang its own strain; that he
was talking after the fashion of the hovels whence he
had issued, but that I declared for certain that I could
succeed most excellently in fashioning his monstrosi-
ties, but that he would never succeed in making that
sort of trumperies. So leaving him in a rage, I told him
that he would soon be made to see this. Those who were
present vociferously declared him to be in the wrong,
reckoning him in the character of the clown that he was,
and me in that of a man of worth as I had shown myself
to be.
The following day I went to thank Madonna Portia,
and I told her that her ladyship had done the opposite
of what she had said (she wished to do); for since I had
wished to make the Devil laugh, she had made him
deny God afresh. We both laughed heartily, and she gave
me other fine and important commissions to execute.
At this juncture I sought, through the medium of a pupil
of the painter Raffaello da Urbino/ that the Bishop of
Salamanca should employ me to make a large vase for
water, called an " ewer," ^ such as they are accustomed
to keep upon sideboards for ornament. And the said
bishop wishing to order two of equal size, commissioned
the said Lucagniolo to make one, and the other of them
I had to fashion; and for the decoration of the said
vases 3 the said Gioanfrancescho the painter gave us
i This was Gian Francesco Penni,
s These great vases were common objects of orna-
ment in the wealthy and luxurious houses of that date. CELLINI
refers to them again in Chapter XXII of his 7?*^^ <9?; ^
;*/%<? CWTjWM'A.
s A word used by architects to describe the
LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
since they were so well paid for. Not less indignantly
did I retort that every bird sang its own strain; that he
was talking after the fashion of the hovels whence he
had issued, but that I declared for certain that I could
succeed most excellently in fashioning his monstrosi-
ties, but that he would never succeed in making that
sort of trumperies. So leaving him in a rage, I told him
that he would soon be made to see this. Those who were
present vociferously declared him to be in the wrong,
reckoning him in the character of the clown that he was,
and me in that of a man of worth as I had shown myself
to be.
The following day I went to thank Madonna Portia,
and I told her that her ladyship had done the opposite
of what she had said (she wished to do); for since I had
wished to make the Devil laugh, she had made him
deny God afresh. We both laughed heartily, and she gave
me other fine and important commissions to execute.
At this juncture I sought, through the medium of a pupil
of the painter Raffaello da Urbino/ that the Bishop of
Salamanca should employ me to make a large vase for
water, called an " ewer," ^ such as they are accustomed
to keep upon sideboards for ornament. And the said
bishop wishing to order two of equal size, commissioned
the said Lucagniolo to make one, and the other of them
I had to fashion; and for the decoration of the said
vases 3 the said Gioanfrancescho the painter gave us
i This was Gian Francesco Penni,
s These great vases were common objects of orna-
ment in the wealthy and luxurious houses of that date. CELLINI
refers to them again in Chapter XXII of his 7?*^^ <9?; ^
;*/%<? CWTjWM'A.
s A word used by architects to describe the