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CH. iv] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 73
the design. So with extraordinary goodwill I set to
work upon the said vase, and I was accommodated
with a part of his shop by a Milanese, who was named
master Giovanpiero della Taccad Setting my affairs in
order, I reckoned up the money that I should require for
certain needs of my own, and all the rest I sent to the
assistance of my poor but excellent father: who, whilst
the money was being paid to him in Florence, chanced
to meet one of those who were members
of the Eight at that time when I created that small
disturbance, and who with gross abuse had told him
that he would certainly send me to the gallowsd And
since that had certain evil scoundrels of
sons, my father said with reference to them: " Disas-
ters may fall upon any one, especially upon hot-tem-
pered men when they are in the right, as happened
in the case of my son; but you observe from the rest
of his life since, that I did know how to bring him
up virtuously. May God grant on your behalf that
your sons do neither worse nor better for you than
that which mine has done for me; for as God has made
wealth of ornamental detail: dowers, leaves, masks, animals, etc.,
employed by them in decoration.
^ Perhaps ; y BERTOLOTTI, ^4z'/ZZ' Z^zzz^zzz'Zz cz'/.,
Vol. I, pp. 243, 271, 295-296. GNOLi .SZw. ^4?Z?, 1891,
p. 240) suggests, and with some show of reason, that he may
be identided with the goldsmith Crivelli.
^ ty Chap. Ill, pp. 56, n. 1, 60, n. 1. It is impossible to dnd a
single English word that will adequately express the exact meaning
of this word " dZzvznMzaZ'." Perhaps " Reformer " might do best, but
that word, although expressive of what these people actually were,
is lacking in the force conveyed by a nickname of and
signidcance.
^ (T/i Chap. Ill czY., p. 60, n. 2.
the design. So with extraordinary goodwill I set to
work upon the said vase, and I was accommodated
with a part of his shop by a Milanese, who was named
master Giovanpiero della Taccad Setting my affairs in
order, I reckoned up the money that I should require for
certain needs of my own, and all the rest I sent to the
assistance of my poor but excellent father: who, whilst
the money was being paid to him in Florence, chanced
to meet one of those who were members
of the Eight at that time when I created that small
disturbance, and who with gross abuse had told him
that he would certainly send me to the gallowsd And
since that had certain evil scoundrels of
sons, my father said with reference to them: " Disas-
ters may fall upon any one, especially upon hot-tem-
pered men when they are in the right, as happened
in the case of my son; but you observe from the rest
of his life since, that I did know how to bring him
up virtuously. May God grant on your behalf that
your sons do neither worse nor better for you than
that which mine has done for me; for as God has made
wealth of ornamental detail: dowers, leaves, masks, animals, etc.,
employed by them in decoration.
^ Perhaps ; y BERTOLOTTI, ^4z'/ZZ' Z^zzz^zzz'Zz cz'/.,
Vol. I, pp. 243, 271, 295-296. GNOLi .SZw. ^4?Z?, 1891,
p. 240) suggests, and with some show of reason, that he may
be identided with the goldsmith Crivelli.
^ ty Chap. Ill, pp. 56, n. 1, 60, n. 1. It is impossible to dnd a
single English word that will adequately express the exact meaning
of this word " dZzvznMzaZ'." Perhaps " Reformer " might do best, but
that word, although expressive of what these people actually were,
is lacking in the force conveyed by a nickname of and
signidcance.
^ (T/i Chap. Ill czY., p. 60, n. 2.