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CH, xi] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 217
Your Holiness knows, I also labour with good will in
such matters, I pray that I may become worthy of it."
The Pope answered: "This devil of a Benvenuto will
not listen to rebuke. I was disposed to give the post to
him, but it is not right of him to be so haughty with a
Pope; therefore I don't know what I shall do." The
Bishop of Vaison/ immediately coming forward, begged
on behalf of the said Bastiano, saying: "Most Blessed
Father, Benvenuto is young and is much better suited
to wear the sword than the friar's robe; let Your Holi-
ness be content to give this post to this talented man
Bastian; and to Benvenuto you will perhaps be able
to give something good, which will be more suitable
than this thing." Then the Pope, turning to Misser
Bartolomeo Valori/ said to him: "When you meet
Benvenuto, tell him on my behalf that it was really he
who caused Bastiano the painter to get the (post of)
Privy Seal; and that he remain assured that the first
better post that becomes vacant shall be his; and that
in the meantime he attend to well-doing, and finish my
commissions." The next evening after, at two hours after
night-fall,meeting Misser Bartolomeo Valori at the corner
i ty Chap. X, p. 206, n. 2.
^ Baccio or Bartolomeo Valori, a Florentine and partisan of the
Medici, was Commissary-General for Clement VII to the Prince of
Orange during the siege of Florence. Thinking himself insufficiently
rewarded by the Medici, he entered into conspiracy with Filippo
Strozzi, and was in company with the exiles during their defeat at
Montemurlo. For this reason, being captured and taken to Florence,
he was beheaded on August 20th 1537, along with his son Filippo
and a nephew, likewise named Filippo, without inspiring pity from
either party. <y BERTOLOTTI, c;7., I, p. 250; PAS-
SERINI, GzbT-73. XzYL ; SEGNI, Lib. IX; and
VARCHi, Libb. XII, XIV.
Your Holiness knows, I also labour with good will in
such matters, I pray that I may become worthy of it."
The Pope answered: "This devil of a Benvenuto will
not listen to rebuke. I was disposed to give the post to
him, but it is not right of him to be so haughty with a
Pope; therefore I don't know what I shall do." The
Bishop of Vaison/ immediately coming forward, begged
on behalf of the said Bastiano, saying: "Most Blessed
Father, Benvenuto is young and is much better suited
to wear the sword than the friar's robe; let Your Holi-
ness be content to give this post to this talented man
Bastian; and to Benvenuto you will perhaps be able
to give something good, which will be more suitable
than this thing." Then the Pope, turning to Misser
Bartolomeo Valori/ said to him: "When you meet
Benvenuto, tell him on my behalf that it was really he
who caused Bastiano the painter to get the (post of)
Privy Seal; and that he remain assured that the first
better post that becomes vacant shall be his; and that
in the meantime he attend to well-doing, and finish my
commissions." The next evening after, at two hours after
night-fall,meeting Misser Bartolomeo Valori at the corner
i ty Chap. X, p. 206, n. 2.
^ Baccio or Bartolomeo Valori, a Florentine and partisan of the
Medici, was Commissary-General for Clement VII to the Prince of
Orange during the siege of Florence. Thinking himself insufficiently
rewarded by the Medici, he entered into conspiracy with Filippo
Strozzi, and was in company with the exiles during their defeat at
Montemurlo. For this reason, being captured and taken to Florence,
he was beheaded on August 20th 1537, along with his son Filippo
and a nephew, likewise named Filippo, without inspiring pity from
either party. <y BERTOLOTTI, c;7., I, p. 250; PAS-
SERINI, GzbT-73. XzYL ; SEGNI, Lib. IX; and
VARCHi, Libb. XII, XIV.