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CH. xxi] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 377
cost: from this (danger) I rescued him, guarding him day
and night, with the greatest pains. Moreover, by having
spoken evil ofthat very excellent architect Maestro Antonio
da San Gallo/he causedacommissiontobe taken fromhim
that he had succeeded in getting for him from Misser
Agniol de Cesi:^ then he (San Gallo) began to do so
much against him (Rosso) that he brought him to the
verge of dying from starvation; for the which reason I lent
him many tens of to live upon. And not having
yet been repaid, knowing that he was in the service of
the King, I went, as I have said, to visit him: I did not
think so much that he would pay me back my money,
but I did think that he would give me help and counten-
ance in order to get me into the service of that great
King. When he saw me, he was immediately confused,
and said to me: " Benvenuto! you have come at too great
an expense on so long a journey, especially at this time,
when men are attending to war, and not to such tribes
* Antonio di Bartolomeo G^rrfzhzzz, and not Azkr<?zzz', as VASARI
(<%?. MiLANBSi <rz'A, Vol. V, pp. 447-473 and calls him,—
commonly known as "Antonio da Sangallo /A? F<?zzzz^r," to dis-
tinguish him from his uncle of the same name,—studied architec-
ture with his uncles, Giuliano and Antonio, in Rome, assisting
Bramante as architect of the Vatican Basilica. He worked also in
the Church of Sta. Maria at Loreto; at Orvieto, where, according
to the directions of Pope Clement VII, he devised the famous
<A* A. TWrzls'zh; and in other places, devoting special attention to
the construction and restoration of fortresses. He eventually suc-
ceeded his uncle Giuliano in the charge of the Fabric of St. Peter's,
where he worked in company with Raphael. He died in 1546 at
Terni, whither he had gone to direct the course of the river Marmora.
CELLINI speaks of him with much esteem in his ??v<3A'.sv <?zz
GVVswzA/z, AA, p. 223.
^ VASARI speaks of this man in his Zzwy as a protector and
patronjof artists.
cost: from this (danger) I rescued him, guarding him day
and night, with the greatest pains. Moreover, by having
spoken evil ofthat very excellent architect Maestro Antonio
da San Gallo/he causedacommissiontobe taken fromhim
that he had succeeded in getting for him from Misser
Agniol de Cesi:^ then he (San Gallo) began to do so
much against him (Rosso) that he brought him to the
verge of dying from starvation; for the which reason I lent
him many tens of to live upon. And not having
yet been repaid, knowing that he was in the service of
the King, I went, as I have said, to visit him: I did not
think so much that he would pay me back my money,
but I did think that he would give me help and counten-
ance in order to get me into the service of that great
King. When he saw me, he was immediately confused,
and said to me: " Benvenuto! you have come at too great
an expense on so long a journey, especially at this time,
when men are attending to war, and not to such tribes
* Antonio di Bartolomeo G^rrfzhzzz, and not Azkr<?zzz', as VASARI
(<%?. MiLANBSi <rz'A, Vol. V, pp. 447-473 and calls him,—
commonly known as "Antonio da Sangallo /A? F<?zzzz^r," to dis-
tinguish him from his uncle of the same name,—studied architec-
ture with his uncles, Giuliano and Antonio, in Rome, assisting
Bramante as architect of the Vatican Basilica. He worked also in
the Church of Sta. Maria at Loreto; at Orvieto, where, according
to the directions of Pope Clement VII, he devised the famous
<A* A. TWrzls'zh; and in other places, devoting special attention to
the construction and restoration of fortresses. He eventually suc-
ceeded his uncle Giuliano in the charge of the Fabric of St. Peter's,
where he worked in company with Raphael. He died in 1546 at
Terni, whither he had gone to direct the course of the river Marmora.
CELLINI speaks of him with much esteem in his ??v<3A'.sv <?zz
GVVswzA/z, AA, p. 223.
^ VASARI speaks of this man in his Zzwy as a protector and
patronjof artists.