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LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
stones, so many medals, and such fine and noble coins.
Is this then the proud priestlike remuneration that
you employ towards a man who has served you and
loved you with so much fidelity and with so much
ability? Oh! go and relate all that I have said to the
Pope, telling him that he has all his jewels; and that I
have never had from the Church anything but certain
wounds and stonings during that period of the Sack;
and that I have never reckoned on anything, except
a small remuneration from Pope Pagolo, which he
had promised me. Now I am clear both before His
Holiness and before you his ministers." Whilst I was
speaking these words they remained listening in as-
tonishment; and looking one another in the face, they
left me with signs of surprise. They all three went to-
gether to relate to the Pope all that I had said/ The
Pope being ashamed, directed them that they should
^ BERTOLOTTi (^7-?. /zv/z<5. rz'/., Vol. I, p. 261) has recovered for us
from the Tv^zk^z (hy/zYzzz'z a substantial portion of the recorded
evidence given at the various examinations of Cellini with regard to
this supposed theft; but the documents relating to the matter are
very much injured by damp. BERTOLOTTI accuses CELLINI of
^rn^zh, a charge from which GUASTI defends him; and there are
unquestionably vast differences between his replies, as officially
recorded, and the same as related by himself. Official registers
could scarcely be expected to reveal much more than bald facts,
and it would be idle to deny that CELLINI does make a finer case
for himself than (judging from what we know of him) we might expect
to be quite in accordance with the strict truth. Still it must be
remembered that our hero is telling the story after a lapse of a
considerable number of years, and it is quite conceivable that he
should mix up what %vzzV /z'^zz? z*z? yzzz'zf with what he
really did say. We are, therefore, bound to avoid the temptation
of setting him down as an absolute liar, while retaining to our-
selves the right to take his story with some reservations.
LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
stones, so many medals, and such fine and noble coins.
Is this then the proud priestlike remuneration that
you employ towards a man who has served you and
loved you with so much fidelity and with so much
ability? Oh! go and relate all that I have said to the
Pope, telling him that he has all his jewels; and that I
have never had from the Church anything but certain
wounds and stonings during that period of the Sack;
and that I have never reckoned on anything, except
a small remuneration from Pope Pagolo, which he
had promised me. Now I am clear both before His
Holiness and before you his ministers." Whilst I was
speaking these words they remained listening in as-
tonishment; and looking one another in the face, they
left me with signs of surprise. They all three went to-
gether to relate to the Pope all that I had said/ The
Pope being ashamed, directed them that they should
^ BERTOLOTTi (^7-?. /zv/z<5. rz'/., Vol. I, p. 261) has recovered for us
from the Tv^zk^z (hy/zYzzz'z a substantial portion of the recorded
evidence given at the various examinations of Cellini with regard to
this supposed theft; but the documents relating to the matter are
very much injured by damp. BERTOLOTTI accuses CELLINI of
^rn^zh, a charge from which GUASTI defends him; and there are
unquestionably vast differences between his replies, as officially
recorded, and the same as related by himself. Official registers
could scarcely be expected to reveal much more than bald facts,
and it would be idle to deny that CELLINI does make a finer case
for himself than (judging from what we know of him) we might expect
to be quite in accordance with the strict truth. Still it must be
remembered that our hero is telling the story after a lapse of a
considerable number of years, and it is quite conceivable that he
should mix up what %vzzV /z'^zz? z*z? yzzz'zf with what he
really did say. We are, therefore, bound to avoid the temptation
of setting him down as an absolute liar, while retaining to our-
selves the right to take his story with some reservations.