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146 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
into such disorder that inasmuch as they were laden
with the spoiis of the great Sack, some of them, anxious
to enjoy the fruit of their exertions, frequently wanted
to mutiny in order to return home. Held in check,
however, by that brave captain of theirs, who was called
Gian di Urbino/ to their very great inconvenience they
were compelled to take another road in order to change
their guard: which inconvenience involved (a detour)
of more than three miles, whereas this former route
meant but half a one. When I had completed this ex-
ploit all those lords who were in the Castello paid me
splendid compliments. This event was such that in
reference to its important consequences, I have wished
to relate it in order to complete this episode, because
I am not dealing with that profession which is the main
object of my narrative; for if I wished to embellish my
autobiography with such things as these, I should have
far too much to say. There is but one other event,
which I will relate in its own place. Anticipating (T<%/-
zzzzzzzzz^z) a little, I will tell how Pope Clemente
with a view to saving his tiaras ^ with all the mass of
splendid jewels belonging to the Apostolic Treasury,
caused me to be summoned, and shut himself up in a
' A Spanish captain, who through his personal valour rose from
the low rank of groom to the highest grades in the army. He dis-
tinguished himself at the taking of Genoa and at the battle of Lodi
in 1522, and became Lieutenant-General to the Prince of Orange.
He fought against Filippo Doria in the Bay of Naples, and it was
while besieged in that city in 1528 that he was the cause of the
death during a sortie of Orazio Baglioni. He died the year after
before Spello in Umbria. VARCHI represents him as a man of
great cruelty and of overweening pride.
^ = the triple crowns of the Holy See.
into such disorder that inasmuch as they were laden
with the spoiis of the great Sack, some of them, anxious
to enjoy the fruit of their exertions, frequently wanted
to mutiny in order to return home. Held in check,
however, by that brave captain of theirs, who was called
Gian di Urbino/ to their very great inconvenience they
were compelled to take another road in order to change
their guard: which inconvenience involved (a detour)
of more than three miles, whereas this former route
meant but half a one. When I had completed this ex-
ploit all those lords who were in the Castello paid me
splendid compliments. This event was such that in
reference to its important consequences, I have wished
to relate it in order to complete this episode, because
I am not dealing with that profession which is the main
object of my narrative; for if I wished to embellish my
autobiography with such things as these, I should have
far too much to say. There is but one other event,
which I will relate in its own place. Anticipating (T<%/-
zzzzzzzzz^z) a little, I will tell how Pope Clemente
with a view to saving his tiaras ^ with all the mass of
splendid jewels belonging to the Apostolic Treasury,
caused me to be summoned, and shut himself up in a
' A Spanish captain, who through his personal valour rose from
the low rank of groom to the highest grades in the army. He dis-
tinguished himself at the taking of Genoa and at the battle of Lodi
in 1522, and became Lieutenant-General to the Prince of Orange.
He fought against Filippo Doria in the Bay of Naples, and it was
while besieged in that city in 1528 that he was the cause of the
death during a sortie of Orazio Baglioni. He died the year after
before Spello in Umbria. VARCHI represents him as a man of
great cruelty and of overweening pride.
^ = the triple crowns of the Holy See.