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CH. x] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 185
this unhappy girl would remain crippled in her entire
right arm, even if nothing worse resulted, I, seeing the
wretched parent so terrified, told him not to believe all
that that ignorant surgeon had said. Whereupon he told
me that he had no acquaintance with any doctors, who
were surgeons, and besought me that if I knew anyone,
I would bring him. I immediately called in a certain
master Jacomo from Perugia/ a man much skilled in
surgery; and when he had seen this poor little girl, who
was in terror, for she must have foreboded what that
ignorant quack had said; whereat this clever man told
her that she would have no evil consequence, and that she
would have very good use of her right hand: and although
those two last fingers would be a little weaker than the
others, they would not on that account give her the least
inconvenience in the world. And having set to work to
treat her, in the course of a few days, when he wished
to extract a small portion of the diseased part of those
small bones, her father summoned me, in order that I
might come and see a little what suffering this girl had
to endure. For the purpose the said master Jacopo took
certain large steel instruments, and when I saw that with
these he made little progress and caused very great pain
to the said girl, I told the master to stop and to wait a
few minutes rf'cTv?) for me. Hurrying into
* Jacomo RasteHi was actually a native of Rimini, but from long
residence in Perugia was generally spoken of as the "Perugian." He
was a celebrated surgeon, and served Clement VII and his suc-
cessors until 1566, when he died at the age of seventy-five, d/i
MARINI, HzWM/z-z'^zzz'z/fcz', Vol. I, p. 356. We learn from BERTO-
LOTTI (Hr/z'y/z cz7.) that it was not until some years after
the death of Clement VII that he received the sum of 600 ducats
due to him for his attendance to that Pontiff during his last illness,
this unhappy girl would remain crippled in her entire
right arm, even if nothing worse resulted, I, seeing the
wretched parent so terrified, told him not to believe all
that that ignorant surgeon had said. Whereupon he told
me that he had no acquaintance with any doctors, who
were surgeons, and besought me that if I knew anyone,
I would bring him. I immediately called in a certain
master Jacomo from Perugia/ a man much skilled in
surgery; and when he had seen this poor little girl, who
was in terror, for she must have foreboded what that
ignorant quack had said; whereat this clever man told
her that she would have no evil consequence, and that she
would have very good use of her right hand: and although
those two last fingers would be a little weaker than the
others, they would not on that account give her the least
inconvenience in the world. And having set to work to
treat her, in the course of a few days, when he wished
to extract a small portion of the diseased part of those
small bones, her father summoned me, in order that I
might come and see a little what suffering this girl had
to endure. For the purpose the said master Jacopo took
certain large steel instruments, and when I saw that with
these he made little progress and caused very great pain
to the said girl, I told the master to stop and to wait a
few minutes rf'cTv?) for me. Hurrying into
* Jacomo RasteHi was actually a native of Rimini, but from long
residence in Perugia was generally spoken of as the "Perugian." He
was a celebrated surgeon, and served Clement VII and his suc-
cessors until 1566, when he died at the age of seventy-five, d/i
MARINI, HzWM/z-z'^zzz'z/fcz', Vol. I, p. 356. We learn from BERTO-
LOTTI (Hr/z'y/z cz7.) that it was not until some years after
the death of Clement VII that he received the sum of 600 ducats
due to him for his attendance to that Pontiff during his last illness,