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i88 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
since I find no better go-between than your lordship,
I pray you to assist me and to fix yourself such
dowry as may seem to please you out of my estate."
This hare-brained ^ personage scarcely allowed that poor
worthy man to finish speaking, than without any sort of
reason, he said: "Talk no more, Raffaello, upon this
point, because you are farther apart from your object
than January is from blackberries." The poor man, much
cast down, quickly sought to marry her; and her mother
and all the family remained very cross with me, and I
did not know the reason. And since it seemed to me
that they were paying me back in bad coin for the many
civilities that I had shown them, I sought to open a shop
near them. The said Misser Giovanni told me nothing
until the said girl was married, which took place within
the space of several months. I was applying myself with
great attention to the completion of my work, and to the
service of the Mint; for the Pope again commissioned
me (to make) a coin of the value of two upon
which was a portrait-bust of His Holiness, and on the
reverse a yz?<%, Who was stretching
out His Hand to St. Peter, with an inscription round it
which said: yz/iVAzVz'.?" This coin gave such ex-
* C^?zV/zzz<? = zfzV^cz7 that is to say, "of little sense."
2 This coin "of the value of two czzz*/zzzz'"—mentioned again in
Chapter XIV of the 77v<?z*z'.sv zzzz 7%^ 7%^ CVzTswzz'T'z—
bore on one side the portrait bust of Clement VII, similar to that
on the doubloon already described; to which it also corresponded
in size and diameter. And on the reverse was the Vz^zzzv V
GVzsy /y?z'zz^* .57. 7V7??*yAwz z7L with the words " (2zz%zv <7zz<%z-
/zzVz'F" A reproduction of an example of it now preserved in the
Cabinet de France is given by PLON, <?^. cz'7, PI. n, and described
on pp. 197-8.
since I find no better go-between than your lordship,
I pray you to assist me and to fix yourself such
dowry as may seem to please you out of my estate."
This hare-brained ^ personage scarcely allowed that poor
worthy man to finish speaking, than without any sort of
reason, he said: "Talk no more, Raffaello, upon this
point, because you are farther apart from your object
than January is from blackberries." The poor man, much
cast down, quickly sought to marry her; and her mother
and all the family remained very cross with me, and I
did not know the reason. And since it seemed to me
that they were paying me back in bad coin for the many
civilities that I had shown them, I sought to open a shop
near them. The said Misser Giovanni told me nothing
until the said girl was married, which took place within
the space of several months. I was applying myself with
great attention to the completion of my work, and to the
service of the Mint; for the Pope again commissioned
me (to make) a coin of the value of two upon
which was a portrait-bust of His Holiness, and on the
reverse a yz?<%, Who was stretching
out His Hand to St. Peter, with an inscription round it
which said: yz/iVAzVz'.?" This coin gave such ex-
* C^?zV/zzz<? = zfzV^cz7 that is to say, "of little sense."
2 This coin "of the value of two czzz*/zzzz'"—mentioned again in
Chapter XIV of the 77v<?z*z'.sv zzzz 7%^ 7%^ CVzTswzz'T'z—
bore on one side the portrait bust of Clement VII, similar to that
on the doubloon already described; to which it also corresponded
in size and diameter. And on the reverse was the Vz^zzzv V
GVzsy /y?z'zz^* .57. 7V7??*yAwz z7L with the words " (2zz%zv <7zz<%z-
/zzVz'F" A reproduction of an example of it now preserved in the
Cabinet de France is given by PLON, <?^. cz'7, PI. n, and described
on pp. 197-8.