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CHAPTER XX
(1537)
Cellini leaves Rome on April 2nd on his way to France.—He is
accompanied by his apprentices, Girolamo of Perugia and Ascanio
of Tagliacozzo.—At Padua he makes designs for a medal for
Pietro Bembo, who presents him with three horses.—He journeys
through Switzerland.—Strange encounter with the Florentine
courier Busbacca.—Perils upon a lake between Wallenstadt and
Vessa.—His escape and subsequent adventures.—In June he
arrives in Paris.
T_T AVING resolved, as I said a short time since, to
^ 1 go towards France, because I perceived that the
Pope did not hold me in the same estimation as before,
since by means of evil tongues my great service had
been befouled; and for fear lest those who could would
do me worse injury, I therefore was disposed to seek
another country, in order to see if I could find better
fortune; and I would willingly have gone away alone.
Having resolved one evening to depart next morning, I
told that faithful Felice that he was to enjoy all my
substance until my return; and if it chanced that I did
not return, I wished that everything should be his. And
since I had a Perugian apprentice/ who had assisted
' Girolamo Pascucci, who is alluded to again by CELLINI in
Book II of (see also, p. 385); and in the7?A(77W<7
361
(1537)
Cellini leaves Rome on April 2nd on his way to France.—He is
accompanied by his apprentices, Girolamo of Perugia and Ascanio
of Tagliacozzo.—At Padua he makes designs for a medal for
Pietro Bembo, who presents him with three horses.—He journeys
through Switzerland.—Strange encounter with the Florentine
courier Busbacca.—Perils upon a lake between Wallenstadt and
Vessa.—His escape and subsequent adventures.—In June he
arrives in Paris.
T_T AVING resolved, as I said a short time since, to
^ 1 go towards France, because I perceived that the
Pope did not hold me in the same estimation as before,
since by means of evil tongues my great service had
been befouled; and for fear lest those who could would
do me worse injury, I therefore was disposed to seek
another country, in order to see if I could find better
fortune; and I would willingly have gone away alone.
Having resolved one evening to depart next morning, I
told that faithful Felice that he was to enjoy all my
substance until my return; and if it chanced that I did
not return, I wished that everything should be his. And
since I had a Perugian apprentice/ who had assisted
' Girolamo Pascucci, who is alluded to again by CELLINI in
Book II of (see also, p. 385); and in the7?A(77W<7
361