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130 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
for the said house, and that I would take the command
of them as I had done in the time of the Colonna:
whereupon I procured fifty most valiant young men and,
well paid and lodged, we took up our abode in his house.
When the army of Borbone had already appeared before
the walls of Rome/ the said Alessandro del Bene begged
me that I would go with him to keep him company; so
one of the best men in my company and I went with him;
and on the way there joined us a youth named Cecchino
della Casa. We reached the wall of the Campo Santo/
and thence we saw that marvellous host, which had
already made every sort of effort to gain an entrance.
At that point in the fortifications which we approached
there were many youths killed by the assailants (yzz^z* tfz
yhcTYz). The fight therefore was at its hottest. There was
as thick a fog as it is possible to imagine/ I turned to
Alessandro and said to him: "Let us return home as
quickly as possible, for there is no help at all to be given
here; you see those (the enemy) are mounting the walls
and these (the defenders) are falling back." The said
Lessandro, terrified, replied: "Would to God that we
had not come here;" and so turned round in great haste
to depart. I reproved him, saying: "Since you have
brought me here, we must perform some courageous act "
(<32^ ofzz ^zzzwzt?); and turning my arquebuse in the direc-
t By means of forced marches, with extraordinary speed and
audacity, Bourbon arrived unexpectedly in the middle of the night
of May 4th 1527, and, although unsupplied with artillery, com-
menced the assault next morning.
^ The Campo Santo 3^2* TRzkrfA'. C/- MONSIGNOR DE WAAL.
s GUICCIARDINI and other historians of the Sack of Rome con-
firm the fact that Bourbon was favoured by fortune "through the
advantage gained by a thick fog."
for the said house, and that I would take the command
of them as I had done in the time of the Colonna:
whereupon I procured fifty most valiant young men and,
well paid and lodged, we took up our abode in his house.
When the army of Borbone had already appeared before
the walls of Rome/ the said Alessandro del Bene begged
me that I would go with him to keep him company; so
one of the best men in my company and I went with him;
and on the way there joined us a youth named Cecchino
della Casa. We reached the wall of the Campo Santo/
and thence we saw that marvellous host, which had
already made every sort of effort to gain an entrance.
At that point in the fortifications which we approached
there were many youths killed by the assailants (yzz^z* tfz
yhcTYz). The fight therefore was at its hottest. There was
as thick a fog as it is possible to imagine/ I turned to
Alessandro and said to him: "Let us return home as
quickly as possible, for there is no help at all to be given
here; you see those (the enemy) are mounting the walls
and these (the defenders) are falling back." The said
Lessandro, terrified, replied: "Would to God that we
had not come here;" and so turned round in great haste
to depart. I reproved him, saying: "Since you have
brought me here, we must perform some courageous act "
(<32^ ofzz ^zzzwzt?); and turning my arquebuse in the direc-
t By means of forced marches, with extraordinary speed and
audacity, Bourbon arrived unexpectedly in the middle of the night
of May 4th 1527, and, although unsupplied with artillery, com-
menced the assault next morning.
^ The Campo Santo 3^2* TRzkrfA'. C/- MONSIGNOR DE WAAL.
s GUICCIARDINI and other historians of the Sack of Rome con-
firm the fact that Bourbon was favoured by fortune "through the
advantage gained by a thick fog."