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ioo LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
known of it. I enjoyed myself thus agreeably that night
with much more satisfaction than I should have had with
her mistress Faustina. When the hour of dinner ap-
proached, I was as weary as if I had walked many miles,
and desirous of taking food, I felt a violent headache, with
many swellings on my left arm, culminating in a car-
buncle on the wrist-joint of my left hand on the outer
sided In terror, every person in the house, my friend,
the big cow and the little one, all fled, whence left alone
with a poor little shop-boy of mine, who refused to leave
me, I felt stifled at the heart, and realized for sure that I
was a dead man. At this juncture there passed along
the street the father of this my shop-boy, who was
medical attendant to Cardinal Jacoacci/ and belonged
to his establishment. The said boy called out to his
father: "Come here, father, and see Benvenuto, who is
in bed with a slight ailment." Without stopping to think
what the ailment might be, he immediately came in to
me, and feeling my pulse, saw and knew what he would
rather not have known. Turning at once upon his son, he
said: "You traitor child, you have ruined me: how can
I go any more to the Cardinal's?" To which his son
replied: "This master of mine, father, is worth much
more than all the cardinals in Rome." Then the doctor
turned to me and said: "Since I am here, I am willing
to attend you; there is but one thing that I must warn
you, that if you have had intercourse with a woman, you
I " ZW/<3 zY/hcTAZ."
^ Domenico di Cristofano Jacobacci, of a noble Roman family, a
student of letters and a lawyer of ability. He was Auditor of
the Ruota, was created a cardinal by Leo X in 1517, and died
between 1527 and 1528. <y. ClACCONlO and OLDOINI, r;7.,
Vol. Ill, Coll. 383, 530.
known of it. I enjoyed myself thus agreeably that night
with much more satisfaction than I should have had with
her mistress Faustina. When the hour of dinner ap-
proached, I was as weary as if I had walked many miles,
and desirous of taking food, I felt a violent headache, with
many swellings on my left arm, culminating in a car-
buncle on the wrist-joint of my left hand on the outer
sided In terror, every person in the house, my friend,
the big cow and the little one, all fled, whence left alone
with a poor little shop-boy of mine, who refused to leave
me, I felt stifled at the heart, and realized for sure that I
was a dead man. At this juncture there passed along
the street the father of this my shop-boy, who was
medical attendant to Cardinal Jacoacci/ and belonged
to his establishment. The said boy called out to his
father: "Come here, father, and see Benvenuto, who is
in bed with a slight ailment." Without stopping to think
what the ailment might be, he immediately came in to
me, and feeling my pulse, saw and knew what he would
rather not have known. Turning at once upon his son, he
said: "You traitor child, you have ruined me: how can
I go any more to the Cardinal's?" To which his son
replied: "This master of mine, father, is worth much
more than all the cardinals in Rome." Then the doctor
turned to me and said: "Since I am here, I am willing
to attend you; there is but one thing that I must warn
you, that if you have had intercourse with a woman, you
I " ZW/<3 zY/hcTAZ."
^ Domenico di Cristofano Jacobacci, of a noble Roman family, a
student of letters and a lawyer of ability. He was Auditor of
the Ruota, was created a cardinal by Leo X in 1517, and died
between 1527 and 1528. <y. ClACCONlO and OLDOINI, r;7.,
Vol. Ill, Coll. 383, 530.