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CH. iv] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 75
immediately broke into a smile so sincere and so beau-
tiful that I do not wonder at all at those fables which
the Greeks write concerning their heavenly deities.
Perhaps had this lad lived in those days he would
perchance have turned their heads * yet more. This
Paulino had a sister who bore the name of Faustina,
than whom I think the Faustina about whom ancient
writers rave so much was never so beautiful.^ When he
took me sometimes to their vineyard by what I
could judge it seemed to me that the worthy man,
the father of the said Paulino, would have liked to
make me his son-in-law. This circumstance caused me
to practise my music much more than I had done at
hrst. It happened at this time that a certain Giania-
CELLlNl'S narrative runs along easily enough until it comes to the
passage: "which from its natural disposition appeared modest and
melancholy" zzzzAz?^ yzz% ^ 773<37ZzzzrwzzA7 jz zfz*77z^j-
^r<3v<3), a statement which is clearly parenthetic only. But in his
excitement he suddenly confuses this subordinate clause with the
principal one, and instead of returning to the logical sequence
which should follow the words "in order to see that exquisite
countenance light up more often" wbizzie zb y5z'zz .ivwzzzb
z*zzy^zzzzr^ yzzzV wzxravzgVzbj'!? vzb<?), he proceeds to make the latter
half of the sentence stand in apposition to the parenthesis, and not
to the original first clause. The sense of the passage, however,
practically runs thus: " So great was the love I bore to him that I
tried by every means to see light up more often that exquisite
countenance, which from natural disposition was serious and
melancholy. And so it was that, notwithstanding this (z'.<?., his
melancholy seriousness), when I took up my cornet, etc."
i fAvz'zv zfg'_gY27z^<%^7*z, lit., "to take off the hinges."
^ Faustina, wife of the EmperorMarcus Aurelius, famous for her
beauty and her unbridled passions.
3 By this word is probably meant not merely the vzzz^zzvf itself
but also the Ar*zz^,—apparently in the suburbs of Rome,—where
Paulino's father resided.
immediately broke into a smile so sincere and so beau-
tiful that I do not wonder at all at those fables which
the Greeks write concerning their heavenly deities.
Perhaps had this lad lived in those days he would
perchance have turned their heads * yet more. This
Paulino had a sister who bore the name of Faustina,
than whom I think the Faustina about whom ancient
writers rave so much was never so beautiful.^ When he
took me sometimes to their vineyard by what I
could judge it seemed to me that the worthy man,
the father of the said Paulino, would have liked to
make me his son-in-law. This circumstance caused me
to practise my music much more than I had done at
hrst. It happened at this time that a certain Giania-
CELLlNl'S narrative runs along easily enough until it comes to the
passage: "which from its natural disposition appeared modest and
melancholy" zzzzAz?^ yzz% ^ 773<37ZzzzrwzzA7 jz zfz*77z^j-
^r<3v<3), a statement which is clearly parenthetic only. But in his
excitement he suddenly confuses this subordinate clause with the
principal one, and instead of returning to the logical sequence
which should follow the words "in order to see that exquisite
countenance light up more often" wbizzie zb y5z'zz .ivwzzzb
z*zzy^zzzzr^ yzzzV wzxravzgVzbj'!? vzb<?), he proceeds to make the latter
half of the sentence stand in apposition to the parenthesis, and not
to the original first clause. The sense of the passage, however,
practically runs thus: " So great was the love I bore to him that I
tried by every means to see light up more often that exquisite
countenance, which from natural disposition was serious and
melancholy. And so it was that, notwithstanding this (z'.<?., his
melancholy seriousness), when I took up my cornet, etc."
i fAvz'zv zfg'_gY27z^<%^7*z, lit., "to take off the hinges."
^ Faustina, wife of the EmperorMarcus Aurelius, famous for her
beauty and her unbridled passions.
3 By this word is probably meant not merely the vzzz^zzvf itself
but also the Ar*zz^,—apparently in the suburbs of Rome,—where
Paulino's father resided.