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384 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
had to wait until two hours of the night, and then the
Duke appeared: I kissed his hands; he gave me a warm
welcome, and directed that I should be given water for
my hands. For the which reason I said to him cheer-
fully: " Most excellent lord! it is more than four months
that I have not eaten, in so much that it is (difficult) to
believe that any one could be alive upon so little ; where-
fore having realized that I could take no pleasure out of
the royal fare upon your table, I will stop thus and talk
with you whilst Your Excellency sups, and you and I
will at the same time have more pleasure than if I supped
with you." Thus we commenced a conversation and we
continued it until the fifth hour (of the night). At the
fifth hour then I took my leave, and on going to my
inn I found a most wonderfully prepared banquet, for
the Duke had sent to present me with the perquisites of
his own meal with much excellent wine; and by reason
of my having in that way gone more than two hours
beyond my hour for eating, I ate with very great appetite,
for it was the first time after four months that I had been
able to eat. Setting out the next morning, I went to
Santa Maria dal Loreto, and from thence, having made
my devotions, I went on to Rome;^ where I found my
most faithful Filice, to whom I had entrusted the shop
with all its furnishings and belongings/ and I opened
i Mattio Franzesi wrote to VARCHI in Rome, under date De-
cember 19th 1537: "On Sunday there came hither from France
Messer Benvenuto the goldsmith, and to-day there has reached us
Mr. Raffaello da Monte Lupo." That Sunday was the 16th. See
Vol. I, p. iv.
3 This shop with its plenishings that devoted servant Guadagni
guarded faithfully up to the last days of his life. In fact, in the
Will of Felice di Tommaso Guadagni, goldsmith of Florence, exe-
had to wait until two hours of the night, and then the
Duke appeared: I kissed his hands; he gave me a warm
welcome, and directed that I should be given water for
my hands. For the which reason I said to him cheer-
fully: " Most excellent lord! it is more than four months
that I have not eaten, in so much that it is (difficult) to
believe that any one could be alive upon so little ; where-
fore having realized that I could take no pleasure out of
the royal fare upon your table, I will stop thus and talk
with you whilst Your Excellency sups, and you and I
will at the same time have more pleasure than if I supped
with you." Thus we commenced a conversation and we
continued it until the fifth hour (of the night). At the
fifth hour then I took my leave, and on going to my
inn I found a most wonderfully prepared banquet, for
the Duke had sent to present me with the perquisites of
his own meal with much excellent wine; and by reason
of my having in that way gone more than two hours
beyond my hour for eating, I ate with very great appetite,
for it was the first time after four months that I had been
able to eat. Setting out the next morning, I went to
Santa Maria dal Loreto, and from thence, having made
my devotions, I went on to Rome;^ where I found my
most faithful Filice, to whom I had entrusted the shop
with all its furnishings and belongings/ and I opened
i Mattio Franzesi wrote to VARCHI in Rome, under date De-
cember 19th 1537: "On Sunday there came hither from France
Messer Benvenuto the goldsmith, and to-day there has reached us
Mr. Raffaello da Monte Lupo." That Sunday was the 16th. See
Vol. I, p. iv.
3 This shop with its plenishings that devoted servant Guadagni
guarded faithfully up to the last days of his life. In fact, in the
Will of Felice di Tommaso Guadagni, goldsmith of Florence, exe-