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216 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
than eight hundred so that if I gave it to you, you
would spend your time scratching your stomach/ and
you would lose that beauteous art which you have in
your hands, and I should have the blame. I replied at
once that " cats of a good breed hunt the better for re-
pletion than for starving; so that sort of honest men
who are inclined to be talented set themselves to work
much better when they have the means of livelihood
most abundantly; wherefore Your Holiness should know
that those princes who protect the greatest number of
that sort of man water their talent; for by contrast,
talents are born meagre and scrofulous: and Your
Holiness should also know that I never asked lor the
post with the expectation of getting it. Happy am I
that I have that poor bedelship! As for this other this is
just what I expected. Your Holiness will do well, since
you do not wish to bestow it upon me, to give it to some
talented person who deserves it, and not to some great ass
who will spend his time scratching his stomach, as Your
Holiness says. Take example from the honoured memory
of Pope Julio, who gave this post to Bramante, that most
excellent architect."^ Directly I had made my obeisance
I went out in great rage. Bastiano, the Venetian painter,
coming forward, said: " Most Blessed Father, may Your
Holiness be willing to bestow it upon some one who
employs himself upon works of genius; and since, as
' Equivalent to "twirling his thumbs."
^ Donato Lazzeri of Urbino, surnamed 77^^^^/^(1444-1514).
According to CELLINI (Fzvzz/z7^ czz z?<7.
<rz7., p. 84) a dauber of little worth (^z'z7<??*,%<vzb <7z jzVcc cTvVz'A?), but
an architect of great merit. For the details of his Life <V VASARI,
MiLANESi <rz7., Vol. I V, pp. 145-168: and also the F^zz/Az?
referred to above, pp. 221-222.
than eight hundred so that if I gave it to you, you
would spend your time scratching your stomach/ and
you would lose that beauteous art which you have in
your hands, and I should have the blame. I replied at
once that " cats of a good breed hunt the better for re-
pletion than for starving; so that sort of honest men
who are inclined to be talented set themselves to work
much better when they have the means of livelihood
most abundantly; wherefore Your Holiness should know
that those princes who protect the greatest number of
that sort of man water their talent; for by contrast,
talents are born meagre and scrofulous: and Your
Holiness should also know that I never asked lor the
post with the expectation of getting it. Happy am I
that I have that poor bedelship! As for this other this is
just what I expected. Your Holiness will do well, since
you do not wish to bestow it upon me, to give it to some
talented person who deserves it, and not to some great ass
who will spend his time scratching his stomach, as Your
Holiness says. Take example from the honoured memory
of Pope Julio, who gave this post to Bramante, that most
excellent architect."^ Directly I had made my obeisance
I went out in great rage. Bastiano, the Venetian painter,
coming forward, said: " Most Blessed Father, may Your
Holiness be willing to bestow it upon some one who
employs himself upon works of genius; and since, as
' Equivalent to "twirling his thumbs."
^ Donato Lazzeri of Urbino, surnamed 77^^^^/^(1444-1514).
According to CELLINI (Fzvzz/z7^ czz z?<7.
<rz7., p. 84) a dauber of little worth (^z'z7<??*,%<vzb <7z jzVcc cTvVz'A?), but
an architect of great merit. For the details of his Life <V VASARI,
MiLANESi <rz7., Vol. I V, pp. 145-168: and also the F^zz/Az?
referred to above, pp. 221-222.