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CH. ix] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 169
very honest man. He begged me that I would be pleased
to go and work in his shop, for he had some commissions
of importance to carry out, which were (likely to be) very
profitable. So I went willingly. More than ten days had
passed by, during which I had not endeavoured to see
that said master Jacopino della Barca; who, when he
saw me by accident, made me a most effusive welcome,
and upon his asking me how long it was since I had
arrived, I told him that it was about fifteen days. This
(good) man took that very ill, and told me that I must
hold a Pope in very little account, who had already with
great urgency caused him to write three times for me:
and I, though I had taken it much more ill of him, an-
swered nothing, but rather swallowed down my wrath.
This good man, who had a vast supply of words, entered
upon a torrent of them, and said so much upon the point,
that presently, when I saw him tired out, I said nothing
further to him except that at his convenience he should
take me to the Pope. He replied that any time would
do. Whereupon I answered him: "And I am always
ready." He began to go towards the Palace, and I with
him. It was Holy ThursdayWhen we arrived at the
Pope's apartments, because he was well known and I
was expected, we were immediately admitted. The
Pope was in bed, slightly indisposed, and with him were
Misser Jacopo Salviati and the Archbishop of Capua."
Florentine goldsmith in 1525 for the supply of sapphires, diamonds,
and crowns of to be presented to the wife of Zanobi
de' Medici, to Cardinal Trivulzio, to the Duke of Atri, and others.
^ Holy Thursday in 152$ fell upon May 27th.
* Fra Niccolo Schomberg della Magna, a Swede, of the Domi-
nican order and a follower of Savonarola. An intimate friend and
faithful counsellor of Pope Clement VII, he was elected Archbishop
very honest man. He begged me that I would be pleased
to go and work in his shop, for he had some commissions
of importance to carry out, which were (likely to be) very
profitable. So I went willingly. More than ten days had
passed by, during which I had not endeavoured to see
that said master Jacopino della Barca; who, when he
saw me by accident, made me a most effusive welcome,
and upon his asking me how long it was since I had
arrived, I told him that it was about fifteen days. This
(good) man took that very ill, and told me that I must
hold a Pope in very little account, who had already with
great urgency caused him to write three times for me:
and I, though I had taken it much more ill of him, an-
swered nothing, but rather swallowed down my wrath.
This good man, who had a vast supply of words, entered
upon a torrent of them, and said so much upon the point,
that presently, when I saw him tired out, I said nothing
further to him except that at his convenience he should
take me to the Pope. He replied that any time would
do. Whereupon I answered him: "And I am always
ready." He began to go towards the Palace, and I with
him. It was Holy ThursdayWhen we arrived at the
Pope's apartments, because he was well known and I
was expected, we were immediately admitted. The
Pope was in bed, slightly indisposed, and with him were
Misser Jacopo Salviati and the Archbishop of Capua."
Florentine goldsmith in 1525 for the supply of sapphires, diamonds,
and crowns of to be presented to the wife of Zanobi
de' Medici, to Cardinal Trivulzio, to the Duke of Atri, and others.
^ Holy Thursday in 152$ fell upon May 27th.
* Fra Niccolo Schomberg della Magna, a Swede, of the Domi-
nican order and a follower of Savonarola. An intimate friend and
faithful counsellor of Pope Clement VII, he was elected Archbishop