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i?o LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
When the Pope saw me he was very extraordinarily
delighted: and I, when I had kissed his feet, with such
deference as I could muster, approached near to him,
showing that I wished to tell him some matters of
importance. Immediately upon his making a sign with
his hand the said Misser Jacopo and the Archbishop
retired to some distance from us. I began at once,
saying: "Most Blessed Father, from the time when the
Sack took place until now I have been unable to con-
fess or communicate, because they (the priests) will not
absolve me. The case is as follows: that when I melted
down the gold and spent all that labour in unsetting
those jewels (of yours)/ Your Holiness gave directions
to Cavalierino to give me a certain recompense for my
work, from whom I received nothing, rather he more
readily uttered abuse. When I retired to the place
where I had melted down the said gold, on removing
the ashes I found about a pound and a half of gold in very
many little grains like millet; and since I had not suffici-
ent money to enable me to live decently in my own
house, I thought that I would use that and restore it later
when an opportunity should come to me. Now I am at
Your Holiness' feet, who art the true confessor; may
of Capua in 1520, and received a cardinal's hat from Paul 111 in 1535.
He died in 1537 at the age of sixty-five. (CiACCONlOrzY., II I, p. 567;
QUETIF and ECHARD, II, p. 103.)
^ Regarding the value of unset jewels as floating capital during
the Renaissance, when Popes and Princes were accustomed con-
tinually to pawn their treasures to obtain ready money, $7 the ob-
servations made by Professors LUZIO and RENIER in their article
above alluded to (777zzjjc <77 7f<3<W/% zfTcsT?, etc.), p. 313 <? and
JULIA CARTWRIGHT (Mrs. Henry Ady), 7r,3&//% z7H A7zz<7r V
7T^7^7M7jj%7zc<? (London, John Murray, 1903), Vol. I, pp. 116, 138,
and
When the Pope saw me he was very extraordinarily
delighted: and I, when I had kissed his feet, with such
deference as I could muster, approached near to him,
showing that I wished to tell him some matters of
importance. Immediately upon his making a sign with
his hand the said Misser Jacopo and the Archbishop
retired to some distance from us. I began at once,
saying: "Most Blessed Father, from the time when the
Sack took place until now I have been unable to con-
fess or communicate, because they (the priests) will not
absolve me. The case is as follows: that when I melted
down the gold and spent all that labour in unsetting
those jewels (of yours)/ Your Holiness gave directions
to Cavalierino to give me a certain recompense for my
work, from whom I received nothing, rather he more
readily uttered abuse. When I retired to the place
where I had melted down the said gold, on removing
the ashes I found about a pound and a half of gold in very
many little grains like millet; and since I had not suffici-
ent money to enable me to live decently in my own
house, I thought that I would use that and restore it later
when an opportunity should come to me. Now I am at
Your Holiness' feet, who art the true confessor; may
of Capua in 1520, and received a cardinal's hat from Paul 111 in 1535.
He died in 1537 at the age of sixty-five. (CiACCONlOrzY., II I, p. 567;
QUETIF and ECHARD, II, p. 103.)
^ Regarding the value of unset jewels as floating capital during
the Renaissance, when Popes and Princes were accustomed con-
tinually to pawn their treasures to obtain ready money, $7 the ob-
servations made by Professors LUZIO and RENIER in their article
above alluded to (777zzjjc <77 7f<3<W/% zfTcsT?, etc.), p. 313 <? and
JULIA CARTWRIGHT (Mrs. Henry Ady), 7r,3&//% z7H A7zz<7r V
7T^7^7M7jj%7zc<? (London, John Murray, 1903), Vol. I, pp. 116, 138,
and