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386 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
might chance that I would lose my money and perhaps
Rome a second time—for blows cannot be bound by
conditions (?' 73277? U <Z<37373<7 %A?//?*); and that I could
with that writing that I had under his signature imme-
diately have him arrested. I attended to their advice,
but I wanted to carry out the matter with more free-
dom. I did in fact sue him before the Auditor of the
Camera, and won the case; and by virtue of that (ver-
dict), for which I waited several months, I then had him
put in prison. I found my workshop crowded with very
important commissions, and amongst others all the orna-
ments in gold and precious stones of the wife of the lord
Gierolimo Orsino/ father of the lord Paulo, son-in-law
' Girolamo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano and a celebrated warrior,
married at this period Francesca Sforza, of the family of Bosio,
Count of Santa Fiora. Paolo di Giordano, his son, of not less
military fame than his father, created Z23/&2? of Bracciano in 1560,
took as his wife Isabella, daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, whom he
assassinated out of jealousy in 1576. In the Inventory of the goods
impounded in the shop and house of Cellini on October 23rd 1538,
after his imprisonment (a document published in full by BERTO-
LOTTI, ^7/. /37772Y. <73*/., Vol. I, p. 265), we read of the following orna-
ments in gold and precious stones entrusted to him by Girolamo
Orsini, which their owner hastened to recover.
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might chance that I would lose my money and perhaps
Rome a second time—for blows cannot be bound by
conditions (?' 73277? U <Z<37373<7 %A?//?*); and that I could
with that writing that I had under his signature imme-
diately have him arrested. I attended to their advice,
but I wanted to carry out the matter with more free-
dom. I did in fact sue him before the Auditor of the
Camera, and won the case; and by virtue of that (ver-
dict), for which I waited several months, I then had him
put in prison. I found my workshop crowded with very
important commissions, and amongst others all the orna-
ments in gold and precious stones of the wife of the lord
Gierolimo Orsino/ father of the lord Paulo, son-in-law
' Girolamo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano and a celebrated warrior,
married at this period Francesca Sforza, of the family of Bosio,
Count of Santa Fiora. Paolo di Giordano, his son, of not less
military fame than his father, created Z23/&2? of Bracciano in 1560,
took as his wife Isabella, daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, whom he
assassinated out of jealousy in 1576. In the Inventory of the goods
impounded in the shop and house of Cellini on October 23rd 1538,
after his imprisonment (a document published in full by BERTO-
LOTTI, ^7/. /37772Y. <73*/., Vol. I, p. 265), we read of the following orna-
ments in gold and precious stones entrusted to him by Girolamo
Orsini, which their owner hastened to recover.
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