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CH. iv] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 147
I had brought from Rome, a reproduction of a very
wonderful antique head. I also set to work upon another
head of the same size, which I copied from a very
beauteous girl, whom I was keeping with me lor my
sexual satisfaction/ Upon this bust I conferred the name
of /072A37?<3 ZU/zh, which was the name of that place
which the King had chosen for his own special enjoy-
ment. Having constructed a most beautiful little furnace
(/i77vz<3zW/;z) for melting the bronze, and having prepared
and baked our moulds, they (z'.<?. the Parisian master-
workmen) theand I my two heads, I said to them:
" I do not believe that your^zzg will come out (success-
fully), because you have not given enough draught^
from below to enable the air to circulate: wherefore you
are losing time." They said to me that if their work did
not succeed, they would give me back in full all the money
that I had given them, and would make good to me all
the lost expenditure; but that I must keep a good look-
out, for those fine heads of mine, which I wanted to cast
after my Italian method, would never succeed for me. At
this discussion there were present those treasurers and
other nobles who, by the directions of the King, had come
to watch me: and everything that I did or said they
reported it all to the King Those two old master-work-
men who wanted to cast the /cw made some delay
in giving directions for the casting: because they said
^ Of these two works of art no trace can now be found. Qf
PLON, <3^5. rz'Z., p. 280. The girl here alluded to—Caterina by name
—was, as we learn later, the model for the ZV)'77^5/z y^zzZzzz'zz^-
CELLINI uses the word yz'rz'Zz here for y/fzzZzzZ<?z* = " air-passages."
d/i his own description of these processes in his TzvaZz'-sv-f azz
MV77-/& y Z/zz? GWzZfzzzz'ZA, and azz ThrzzyZzzz^.
I had brought from Rome, a reproduction of a very
wonderful antique head. I also set to work upon another
head of the same size, which I copied from a very
beauteous girl, whom I was keeping with me lor my
sexual satisfaction/ Upon this bust I conferred the name
of /072A37?<3 ZU/zh, which was the name of that place
which the King had chosen for his own special enjoy-
ment. Having constructed a most beautiful little furnace
(/i77vz<3zW/;z) for melting the bronze, and having prepared
and baked our moulds, they (z'.<?. the Parisian master-
workmen) theand I my two heads, I said to them:
" I do not believe that your^zzg will come out (success-
fully), because you have not given enough draught^
from below to enable the air to circulate: wherefore you
are losing time." They said to me that if their work did
not succeed, they would give me back in full all the money
that I had given them, and would make good to me all
the lost expenditure; but that I must keep a good look-
out, for those fine heads of mine, which I wanted to cast
after my Italian method, would never succeed for me. At
this discussion there were present those treasurers and
other nobles who, by the directions of the King, had come
to watch me: and everything that I did or said they
reported it all to the King Those two old master-work-
men who wanted to cast the /cw made some delay
in giving directions for the casting: because they said
^ Of these two works of art no trace can now be found. Qf
PLON, <3^5. rz'Z., p. 280. The girl here alluded to—Caterina by name
—was, as we learn later, the model for the ZV)'77^5/z y^zzZzzz'zz^-
CELLINI uses the word yz'rz'Zz here for y/fzzZzzZ<?z* = " air-passages."
d/i his own description of these processes in his TzvaZz'-sv-f azz
MV77-/& y Z/zz? GWzZfzzzz'ZA, and azz ThrzzyZzzz^.