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76 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
como, a fifer from Cesena/ who belonged to the Papal
household, a very wonderful musician, caused me to be
asked by Lorenzo, a trombone-player from Lucca (who
is to-day in the service of our Duke), if I were willing
to assist them on the occasion of the Pope's
by playing on that day upon my cornet the soprano
part in several motets, of which they had a very fine
selection. Although I had the greatest desire to finish
that handsome vase which I had begun—since music
is a wondrous thing in itself and partly to give satis-
faction to my old father—I was pleased to join such a
company; and for eight days previous to the
every day for two hours we practised in concert, to
such purpose that on that day in August we went to the
Bel vedere, and whilst Pope Clemente was dining we
played those well-composed motets in such a manner
that the Pope protested that he had never heard
i BERTOLOTTI, Mr/AA* czY., Vol. I, p. 243, who
has discovered that his surname was TA T?<r7*<z7*T273z', and that he
was by trade an inlayer of wood, since there appears in the records
a payment made to him for an inlaid panel. He seems to have
received a total sum for the whole band, since no entries appear
of payments to Cellini or to any other musician individually.
(A Thy. y^., 1523-1527).
^ The name A^iz^yT? seems to have been derived from the
ancient Roman Festival of the Tb7*z'<2<? Ma^zzyA', held upon the first
day of that month. But most of the earlier commentators seem to
have gone astray as to the festival intended here; GUASTi con-
fuses it with the festivities held by Cosimo de' Medici to celebrate
the memory of his victory at Montemurlo on August 1st 1537 over
Piero Strozzi and the Florentine exiles: but it would seem fairly
obvious, as RUSCONI and VALERI point out, that the Pope
should rather celebrate that most important of Roman Catholic
Feasts, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, held on
Azz^Myz* 157A
como, a fifer from Cesena/ who belonged to the Papal
household, a very wonderful musician, caused me to be
asked by Lorenzo, a trombone-player from Lucca (who
is to-day in the service of our Duke), if I were willing
to assist them on the occasion of the Pope's
by playing on that day upon my cornet the soprano
part in several motets, of which they had a very fine
selection. Although I had the greatest desire to finish
that handsome vase which I had begun—since music
is a wondrous thing in itself and partly to give satis-
faction to my old father—I was pleased to join such a
company; and for eight days previous to the
every day for two hours we practised in concert, to
such purpose that on that day in August we went to the
Bel vedere, and whilst Pope Clemente was dining we
played those well-composed motets in such a manner
that the Pope protested that he had never heard
i BERTOLOTTI, Mr/AA* czY., Vol. I, p. 243, who
has discovered that his surname was TA T?<r7*<z7*T273z', and that he
was by trade an inlayer of wood, since there appears in the records
a payment made to him for an inlaid panel. He seems to have
received a total sum for the whole band, since no entries appear
of payments to Cellini or to any other musician individually.
(A Thy. y^., 1523-1527).
^ The name A^iz^yT? seems to have been derived from the
ancient Roman Festival of the Tb7*z'<2<? Ma^zzyA', held upon the first
day of that month. But most of the earlier commentators seem to
have gone astray as to the festival intended here; GUASTi con-
fuses it with the festivities held by Cosimo de' Medici to celebrate
the memory of his victory at Montemurlo on August 1st 1537 over
Piero Strozzi and the Florentine exiles: but it would seem fairly
obvious, as RUSCONI and VALERI point out, that the Pope
should rather celebrate that most important of Roman Catholic
Feasts, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, held on
Azz^Myz* 157A