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CH. vii] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 133
much against my will. I therefore climbed to the keep
(h/m-fAb) at the same moment that Pope Clemente was
entering the Castello by way of the corridors: for he had
not wanted before then to leave the Palazzo di San Piero
being unable to believe that the enemy would force an
entranced As soon as I found myself within on those
terms, I attached myself to a certain troop of artillery,
under the command of a gunner named Giuliano the
Florentine^ This Giuliano, spying over the battlement
i GUICCIARDINI relates the same fact, namely, that the Pope
waited in the Vatican the result of the attack on the City; and on
hearing of the entry of the besiegers fled to the Castello, accom-
panied by many of the Cardinals.
In the State Archives in Rome there is to be found a Register
headed: /VoA/Tv yh/A z'zz (hiA/A AzzzzA yVr
zz.r<7 <fz TVS'. jzz%ybwzzyVzzz zzzazzz? z?. zzzczzyzyzzcz* fdzjzbzzzzzyz
zzzzzVw <A? r<2.M y? yzzzz SGzz/z'Az z'zz^zzzzzzcz'zzzzzAz zAzJ yzv'zzz<? zA
1527, from which we learn the daily expenses incurred for the
sustenance of the Pope and his Court, whilst taking refuge in the
Castel Sant' Angelo.
These records of the Cardinal Vasionense (Girolamo da Schio of
Vicenza), besides being curious in themselves, establish the fact
that the Pope remained in the Castello up to December 8th 1527,
and did not venture out earlier, as has been stated, to take refuge
from the Plague in the Belvedere. They further prove that he fled
the day before peace was concluded, since the accounts for the
8th are dated at Bracciano, those for the following day at Capra-
nica, and after that at Orvieto and at Viterbo.
PAOLO GlOVlO, in his Az/A <?/* Gzzrzfz'zzzz/ CbAzzTZzz, gives
an account of the hurried flight of the Pope from the Vatican. In
passing along the open he relates how he covered the
Pope's white vestments with his own violet mantle and other gar-
ments, lest so conspicuous an object might be fired at by the
soldiers in the streets below.
" BERTOLOTTi (^dr/zlf/z AwAzT^fz zA. I, pp. 244-245) notes that
this Giuliano is in fact entered among the regular garrison artillery
both before and after the Sack of the City; and that he was, more-
much against my will. I therefore climbed to the keep
(h/m-fAb) at the same moment that Pope Clemente was
entering the Castello by way of the corridors: for he had
not wanted before then to leave the Palazzo di San Piero
being unable to believe that the enemy would force an
entranced As soon as I found myself within on those
terms, I attached myself to a certain troop of artillery,
under the command of a gunner named Giuliano the
Florentine^ This Giuliano, spying over the battlement
i GUICCIARDINI relates the same fact, namely, that the Pope
waited in the Vatican the result of the attack on the City; and on
hearing of the entry of the besiegers fled to the Castello, accom-
panied by many of the Cardinals.
In the State Archives in Rome there is to be found a Register
headed: /VoA/Tv yh/A z'zz (hiA/A AzzzzA yVr
zz.r<7 <fz TVS'. jzz%ybwzzyVzzz zzzazzz? z?. zzzczzyzyzzcz* fdzjzbzzzzzyz
zzzzzVw <A? r<2.M y? yzzzz SGzz/z'Az z'zz^zzzzzzcz'zzzzzAz zAzJ yzv'zzz<? zA
1527, from which we learn the daily expenses incurred for the
sustenance of the Pope and his Court, whilst taking refuge in the
Castel Sant' Angelo.
These records of the Cardinal Vasionense (Girolamo da Schio of
Vicenza), besides being curious in themselves, establish the fact
that the Pope remained in the Castello up to December 8th 1527,
and did not venture out earlier, as has been stated, to take refuge
from the Plague in the Belvedere. They further prove that he fled
the day before peace was concluded, since the accounts for the
8th are dated at Bracciano, those for the following day at Capra-
nica, and after that at Orvieto and at Viterbo.
PAOLO GlOVlO, in his Az/A <?/* Gzzrzfz'zzzz/ CbAzzTZzz, gives
an account of the hurried flight of the Pope from the Vatican. In
passing along the open he relates how he covered the
Pope's white vestments with his own violet mantle and other gar-
ments, lest so conspicuous an object might be fired at by the
soldiers in the streets below.
" BERTOLOTTi (^dr/zlf/z AwAzT^fz zA. I, pp. 244-245) notes that
this Giuliano is in fact entered among the regular garrison artillery
both before and after the Sack of the City; and that he was, more-