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32 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
than a thousand .rca!<3% of damage, which a heavy rain
was doing them; on which account he said that he was
in despair, and that I put heart into him; and he said
that I had aimed several heavy pieces of artillery in that
direction where the clouds were thickest, and already a
very heavy rain had begun to fall; whereupon when I
began to fire oh* this artillery, the rain ceased, and at the
fourth discharge the sun showed itself/ wherefore I was
the sole cause that that festivity had passed off so very
well. Therefore when the Duchess heard it, she had
said: " That Benvenuto is one of those brilliant men, who
stood in high favour (<%%<?%% 7^7%<2?v'<3) with the Duke
Lessandro, my (late) husband, and I shall always take
care of such men should the occasion occur of doing them
a kindness:" and she had besides spoken of me to the
Duke Ottavio her (present) husbands For these reasons
I was going straight to the house of Her Excellency, which
was in the Borgovechio in a very hne palace which is
there: and there I should have been very sure that the
Pope would not have touched me; but since the thing
that I had done up to that point had been too wonderful
i It was believed that the bring of guns, like the ringing of bells,
could cause the cessation of rain and storms. DANTE mentions
this usage as a vain thing in Sonnet XXXVI of the C<272.swM<?7v, as
follows:
77 yfr/M 0773^719 ^7T/7?<7
7^3 <f<97/2g '77 /<2 A?772^VjAz y%777M,
d*7^^77zV<7 yizT* r<Vd V /MT77M
/<7 VF JTV772<7.
Modern scientific experiments have, however, in part confirmed
this theory.
^ From the sentence, " wherefore I was the sole cause," down to
this point the MS. is once more in Cellini's own handwriting.
than a thousand .rca!<3% of damage, which a heavy rain
was doing them; on which account he said that he was
in despair, and that I put heart into him; and he said
that I had aimed several heavy pieces of artillery in that
direction where the clouds were thickest, and already a
very heavy rain had begun to fall; whereupon when I
began to fire oh* this artillery, the rain ceased, and at the
fourth discharge the sun showed itself/ wherefore I was
the sole cause that that festivity had passed off so very
well. Therefore when the Duchess heard it, she had
said: " That Benvenuto is one of those brilliant men, who
stood in high favour (<%%<?%% 7^7%<2?v'<3) with the Duke
Lessandro, my (late) husband, and I shall always take
care of such men should the occasion occur of doing them
a kindness:" and she had besides spoken of me to the
Duke Ottavio her (present) husbands For these reasons
I was going straight to the house of Her Excellency, which
was in the Borgovechio in a very hne palace which is
there: and there I should have been very sure that the
Pope would not have touched me; but since the thing
that I had done up to that point had been too wonderful
i It was believed that the bring of guns, like the ringing of bells,
could cause the cessation of rain and storms. DANTE mentions
this usage as a vain thing in Sonnet XXXVI of the C<272.swM<?7v, as
follows:
77 yfr/M 0773^719 ^7T/7?<7
7^3 <f<97/2g '77 /<2 A?772^VjAz y%777M,
d*7^^77zV<7 yizT* r<Vd V /MT77M
/<7 VF JTV772<7.
Modern scientific experiments have, however, in part confirmed
this theory.
^ From the sentence, " wherefore I was the sole cause," down to
this point the MS. is once more in Cellini's own handwriting.