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CH. vii] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 143
them I every day performed some very notable feat: to
such purpose that I acquired unlimited credit and thanks
from the Pope. Not a day passed in which I did not
slay some one of the enemy beyond the walls. It hap-
pened one day among others, that the Pope was promen-
ading upon the round keep ^ and saw in the Prati a
Spanish colonel, whom he recognized by certain traits,
recollecting that he had formerly been in his service:
and whilst he was regarding him, he talked about him.
I, who was above, beside the " Angel," knew nothing of
this, but I spied a man, clad all in rose-colour, with a
small dart in his hand, who stood there directing the
throwing up of the entrenchments; and planning what
I could do to oppose him, I chose one of my falconets
that I had there; a piece of artillery that is
larger and longer than a almost like a demi-
culverin. This piece I emptied, and then loaded it with
a good quantity of hne powder mixed with coarse: then
I aimed it very carefully at the red man, giving it a
tremendous because he was so far away, since
in the profession it is not customary to employ guns of
that kind for such a long distance. I bred it off, and it
struck the red man exactly in the middle, who out of
arrogance had stuck his sword in front of him after a
^ 77 —the large circular tower, once the mauso-
leum of the Emperor Hadrian, which forms the most conspicuous
feature of the Castel Sand Angelo as we see it to-day.
^ C<?7V/h/r<7 or a piece of artillery (as CELLINI subse-
quently tells us) larger and longer than a jarrc: almost half the
length of a culverin.
3 that is to say = " calculating carefully the
<37v that the cannon-ball must make in order to strike the point
aimed at."
them I every day performed some very notable feat: to
such purpose that I acquired unlimited credit and thanks
from the Pope. Not a day passed in which I did not
slay some one of the enemy beyond the walls. It hap-
pened one day among others, that the Pope was promen-
ading upon the round keep ^ and saw in the Prati a
Spanish colonel, whom he recognized by certain traits,
recollecting that he had formerly been in his service:
and whilst he was regarding him, he talked about him.
I, who was above, beside the " Angel," knew nothing of
this, but I spied a man, clad all in rose-colour, with a
small dart in his hand, who stood there directing the
throwing up of the entrenchments; and planning what
I could do to oppose him, I chose one of my falconets
that I had there; a piece of artillery that is
larger and longer than a almost like a demi-
culverin. This piece I emptied, and then loaded it with
a good quantity of hne powder mixed with coarse: then
I aimed it very carefully at the red man, giving it a
tremendous because he was so far away, since
in the profession it is not customary to employ guns of
that kind for such a long distance. I bred it off, and it
struck the red man exactly in the middle, who out of
arrogance had stuck his sword in front of him after a
^ 77 —the large circular tower, once the mauso-
leum of the Emperor Hadrian, which forms the most conspicuous
feature of the Castel Sand Angelo as we see it to-day.
^ C<?7V/h/r<7 or a piece of artillery (as CELLINI subse-
quently tells us) larger and longer than a jarrc: almost half the
length of a culverin.
3 that is to say = " calculating carefully the
<37v that the cannon-ball must make in order to strike the point
aimed at."