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CHAPTER XI
(1530-1532)
Cellini is suspected of having coined false money, but his innocence
is proved.—He catches the thief who robbed his shop.—Floods
in Rome. — Cellini is appointed a Papal mace-bearer. — He
designs a chalice for the Pope.—He applies unsuccessfully for a
vacant post in the Privy Seal Office, which is given to Sebastiano,
the Venetian painter.—Delays the completion of the chalice, and
has a dispute regarding it with Cardinal Salviati.—The Pope on
his return from Bologna threatens Cellini on account of this
same chalice.—He relates how, being attacked by a venereal
disease, he succeeded in curing himself.
HILST I was applying myself to the said work
V V and labouring continuously for the Mint, there
began to appear throughout Rome certain false coins
stamped with my own dies. They were immediately
taken to the Pope; and suspicion having fallen upon
me, the Pope said to Jacopo Balducci, the Master of the
Mint A "Use the greatest diligence to find the male-
i The name of Jacopo Balducci is to be found (according to
MUNTZ) upon the Registers of the Goldsmiths' Guild from 1530 to
1539, and he was superintendent of the Pontifical Mint from 1329
(rf BERTOLOTTI, rff I, p. 250) until 1541, in which
year he is described as D/2'772 772<%Tj2'<?7' From the Zv/D7v
of BOTTARI we learn that in 1540 he was accused of
coining, and cast into prison. Leone Leoni, who was at the same
time similarly accused, thrashed and disfigured their common
enemy, the German Pellegrino di Lenti, upon which Jacopo, who
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(1530-1532)
Cellini is suspected of having coined false money, but his innocence
is proved.—He catches the thief who robbed his shop.—Floods
in Rome. — Cellini is appointed a Papal mace-bearer. — He
designs a chalice for the Pope.—He applies unsuccessfully for a
vacant post in the Privy Seal Office, which is given to Sebastiano,
the Venetian painter.—Delays the completion of the chalice, and
has a dispute regarding it with Cardinal Salviati.—The Pope on
his return from Bologna threatens Cellini on account of this
same chalice.—He relates how, being attacked by a venereal
disease, he succeeded in curing himself.
HILST I was applying myself to the said work
V V and labouring continuously for the Mint, there
began to appear throughout Rome certain false coins
stamped with my own dies. They were immediately
taken to the Pope; and suspicion having fallen upon
me, the Pope said to Jacopo Balducci, the Master of the
Mint A "Use the greatest diligence to find the male-
i The name of Jacopo Balducci is to be found (according to
MUNTZ) upon the Registers of the Goldsmiths' Guild from 1530 to
1539, and he was superintendent of the Pontifical Mint from 1329
(rf BERTOLOTTI, rff I, p. 250) until 1541, in which
year he is described as D/2'772 772<%Tj2'<?7' From the Zv/D7v
of BOTTARI we learn that in 1540 he was accused of
coining, and cast into prison. Leone Leoni, who was at the same
time similarly accused, thrashed and disfigured their common
enemy, the German Pellegrino di Lenti, upon which Jacopo, who
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