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CHAPTER XIX
(1537)
Cellini sets a diamond in a ring for Paul III.—He finds the Pope
in suspicious private converse with the Marchese del Cuasto.—
He is calumniated by Latino Manetti.—Completes the book-
cover for the Emperor Charles V.—Resolves to go to France.—
Has a violent quarrel with his shop-lad Ascanio.
? ) ETURNING to my shop, I set to work with great
JLV assiduity to finish the diamond ring; regarding
which' there were sent to me (four persons), the principal
jewellers in Rome; ^ because it had been told to the Pope
that that diamond had been set in Venice by the handi-
work of the first jeweller in the world, who was called
Master Miliano Targhetta/ and since that diamond was
' The use of z7 yzzaT? here is one of CELLINI'S common idioms
for z7 yzzzzA
^ In the Tz^a7zV czz TV HW 67A7wzz77, Chapters VIII
and IX (<?t7. rz7.) CELLINI dwells at some length upon his experi-
ments in colouring this diamond, and he gives the names of
not yhzzr jewellers: that is to say, Gaio, Raffaello del Moro, a
Florentine, and Guasparre Romanesco—otherwise Gasparo Gallo,
who was Papal jeweller from 1519 to 1549 (z7z'z?., p. 56).
3 CELLINI in the above-quoted Tr^z'y^ (p. $6) makes Gaio tell
the Pope that Miliano Targhetta "is an old man, nor has there
ever been record, in the world of another man who understood
better how to arrange precious stones upon a foil (yh^z'zz), or upon
colouring matter; whilst Benvenuto is young, and, although he is
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(1537)
Cellini sets a diamond in a ring for Paul III.—He finds the Pope
in suspicious private converse with the Marchese del Cuasto.—
He is calumniated by Latino Manetti.—Completes the book-
cover for the Emperor Charles V.—Resolves to go to France.—
Has a violent quarrel with his shop-lad Ascanio.
? ) ETURNING to my shop, I set to work with great
JLV assiduity to finish the diamond ring; regarding
which' there were sent to me (four persons), the principal
jewellers in Rome; ^ because it had been told to the Pope
that that diamond had been set in Venice by the handi-
work of the first jeweller in the world, who was called
Master Miliano Targhetta/ and since that diamond was
' The use of z7 yzzaT? here is one of CELLINI'S common idioms
for z7 yzzzzA
^ In the Tz^a7zV czz TV HW 67A7wzz77, Chapters VIII
and IX (<?t7. rz7.) CELLINI dwells at some length upon his experi-
ments in colouring this diamond, and he gives the names of
not yhzzr jewellers: that is to say, Gaio, Raffaello del Moro, a
Florentine, and Guasparre Romanesco—otherwise Gasparo Gallo,
who was Papal jeweller from 1519 to 1549 (z7z'z?., p. 56).
3 CELLINI in the above-quoted Tr^z'y^ (p. $6) makes Gaio tell
the Pope that Miliano Targhetta "is an old man, nor has there
ever been record, in the world of another man who understood
better how to arrange precious stones upon a foil (yh^z'zz), or upon
colouring matter; whilst Benvenuto is young, and, although he is
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