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2/o LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
so much that I should be able to live richly without
ever labouring any more for other people. I attended
with care to the completion of the reverse of
** In his T7V222*A<? <772 AA MV77V' V //%<? C27/2A772AA CELLINI (Chap-
ter XV) speaks again of this medal with the two reverses, of which
the punches and dies are preserved in the Museo Nazionale in the
Bargello at Florence. It bears on the obverse the Bust of the Pope
turned to the left, with the inscription: CLEMENS . vn . PONT .
MAX . AN . XI . MDXXXIIII. On the first reverse is symbolized
according to the description that CELLINI himself gives of
it, with the motto CLAUDVNTUR . BELLI . PORTAE . and BENVE-
NVTVS. F.
The other reverse is thus described by BENVENUTO in the same
77*27222*2^27: "And on the other side I made a reverse represent-
ing when Afh-sw 272 zA.svz*^ wAA ^A A*A2?y, <3722^ w^<772
/zzc/AA wzzAT* bAV 22A772, 2727*^27/2*72^* 2*^22/ A <27*2772 77*27/^277*
2^*77*27^ jV272Z2z/ iA/Tv 22 7*272*/^ W2*/7 ^A ^222^^7*27772 wAAA A<3^/ 77227J/
22^22722^272^ j^7*272^y 2^*^22/277*. And this I fashioned most richly with
camels, horses, and many animals very suitable to that multitude
of people, with a little inscription of letters across it, which said:
UT. BIBAT. POPULUS." A subject allusive of the celebrated " Pozzo
di San Patrizio," constructed at Orvieto by Antonio da Sangallo,
in accordance with the commands of Clement VII, when he resided
in that city in 1528.
The diameter of the medal is thirty-nine millimetres.
so much that I should be able to live richly without
ever labouring any more for other people. I attended
with care to the completion of the reverse of
** In his T7V222*A<? <772 AA MV77V' V //%<? C27/2A772AA CELLINI (Chap-
ter XV) speaks again of this medal with the two reverses, of which
the punches and dies are preserved in the Museo Nazionale in the
Bargello at Florence. It bears on the obverse the Bust of the Pope
turned to the left, with the inscription: CLEMENS . vn . PONT .
MAX . AN . XI . MDXXXIIII. On the first reverse is symbolized
according to the description that CELLINI himself gives of
it, with the motto CLAUDVNTUR . BELLI . PORTAE . and BENVE-
NVTVS. F.
The other reverse is thus described by BENVENUTO in the same
77*27222*2^27: "And on the other side I made a reverse represent-
ing when Afh-sw 272 zA.svz*^ wAA ^A A*A2?y, <3722^ w^<772
/zzc/AA wzzAT* bAV 22A772, 2727*^27/2*72^* 2*^22/ A <27*2772 77*27/^277*
2^*77*27^ jV272Z2z/ iA/Tv 22 7*272*/^ W2*/7 ^A ^222^^7*27772 wAAA A<3^/ 77227J/
22^22722^272^ j^7*272^y 2^*^22/277*. And this I fashioned most richly with
camels, horses, and many animals very suitable to that multitude
of people, with a little inscription of letters across it, which said:
UT. BIBAT. POPULUS." A subject allusive of the celebrated " Pozzo
di San Patrizio," constructed at Orvieto by Antonio da Sangallo,
in accordance with the commands of Clement VII, when he resided
in that city in 1528.
The diameter of the medal is thirty-nine millimetres.