DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.32873#0161
CHAPTER V
1524
Cellini is involved in a duel, which, however, ends without blood-
shed.—He strives in friendly rivalry with Lautizio, Caradosso
and Amerighi in seal-cutting, engraving with the chisel and in
enamelling.—He studies the antiquities of Rome and goes out
shooting to avoid the plague.—He makes the acquaintance of
the antiquity-hunters, and purchases from them some very fine
objects of art.—He makes two vases for Jacopo Berengario da
Carpi.—His relations with the servant-maid of a courtesan.—
Falls ill of a carbuncle and with difficulty recovers.—He goes to
Cervetri to visit the painter z7 and is attacked upon the
sea-shore by a band of Moors in disguise, but escapes.—The
artistic society in Rome. Their pastimes and suppers.—Cellini
escorts to one of these festivities a Spanish youth, named Diego,
dressed as a girl.
LTHOUGH it entails my departure from the sub-
41. ject of my profession, in my desire to describe my
life as a whole I am obliged to detail, not altogether
minutely, but at least to allude briefly to, certain events
such as the following. Being once upon the morning of
(the Feast of) our patron St. John ^ at dinner with many
others of our nationJ of divers professions; painters,
^ June 24th; St. John the Baptist being the Patron-Saint of the
city of Florence, ty CESARE GUASTI, 7D ATsV'? S%72
272 AY?V72.^, iTswTvY/;? 272 y57-W22 ^ 2*72 7^2*77222 (Firenze, R. Societh
di S. Giovanni Battista, 1908).
^ It is worth observing how the inhabitants of particular towns
in Italy, when away from their own native place, clung to one
1524
Cellini is involved in a duel, which, however, ends without blood-
shed.—He strives in friendly rivalry with Lautizio, Caradosso
and Amerighi in seal-cutting, engraving with the chisel and in
enamelling.—He studies the antiquities of Rome and goes out
shooting to avoid the plague.—He makes the acquaintance of
the antiquity-hunters, and purchases from them some very fine
objects of art.—He makes two vases for Jacopo Berengario da
Carpi.—His relations with the servant-maid of a courtesan.—
Falls ill of a carbuncle and with difficulty recovers.—He goes to
Cervetri to visit the painter z7 and is attacked upon the
sea-shore by a band of Moors in disguise, but escapes.—The
artistic society in Rome. Their pastimes and suppers.—Cellini
escorts to one of these festivities a Spanish youth, named Diego,
dressed as a girl.
LTHOUGH it entails my departure from the sub-
41. ject of my profession, in my desire to describe my
life as a whole I am obliged to detail, not altogether
minutely, but at least to allude briefly to, certain events
such as the following. Being once upon the morning of
(the Feast of) our patron St. John ^ at dinner with many
others of our nationJ of divers professions; painters,
^ June 24th; St. John the Baptist being the Patron-Saint of the
city of Florence, ty CESARE GUASTI, 7D ATsV'? S%72
272 AY?V72.^, iTswTvY/;? 272 y57-W22 ^ 2*72 7^2*77222 (Firenze, R. Societh
di S. Giovanni Battista, 1908).
^ It is worth observing how the inhabitants of particular towns
in Italy, when away from their own native place, clung to one