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150 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
they along with their families would have to go begging.
Upon this I said that when the King's treasurers wanted
to make them pay that (sum) for which they were
bound, I would promise them to pay it out of my own
pocket, for I had seen clearly that they had in good
faith done all that they knew. These acts acquired for
me such good will from those treasurers, and from those
ministers of the King, as was unbounded. Everything
was communicated in writing to the King, who unique in
his great liberality, commanded that I should carry out
all that I said (I would). At this time there arrived that
most marvellously brave Piero Strozzi U and when he
reminded the King of his own Letters of Naturalization,
the King immediately commanded that they should be
made out: and at the same time with them, said he,
make out also those for Benvenuto, and carry
them immediately on my behalf to his dwelling, and
present them to him free of all expense. Those of the
great Piero Strozzi cost him many hundreds of ducats:
one of those principal secretaries of his (the King's) who
i Eldest son of Filippo Strozzi (see Book I, Chap. VII, Vol. I, p. 147,
n. 2). His father wished him to be created a Cardinal, but he devoted
himself totheserviceof arms, and wasaleaderof considerable ability.
Having fought at the head of the Florentine exiles at the disastrous
rout at Montemurlo, he subsequently enrolled himself in the French
army under King Francis I, from whom he obtained high reward
and honours. Amongst these were the Lordships of Belleville and
Epernay, the Order of Saint Michel, and a Marshalship of France.
He was also a man of culture, and published, under the pseudonym
of S*<rM7*r<3 Vz'<7?v7z^V;7, certain burlesque stanzas entitled Zzz ZLMm
zfz THznnw.? (" The Madness of Magon "). VARCHi <rz/.,
Vol. Ill, Lib. XIII) says that his was a noble spirit, venturesome
and thirsting for glory, but haughty, headstrong, and proud beyond
measure. He died at the age of fifty during the siege of Ihionville.
they along with their families would have to go begging.
Upon this I said that when the King's treasurers wanted
to make them pay that (sum) for which they were
bound, I would promise them to pay it out of my own
pocket, for I had seen clearly that they had in good
faith done all that they knew. These acts acquired for
me such good will from those treasurers, and from those
ministers of the King, as was unbounded. Everything
was communicated in writing to the King, who unique in
his great liberality, commanded that I should carry out
all that I said (I would). At this time there arrived that
most marvellously brave Piero Strozzi U and when he
reminded the King of his own Letters of Naturalization,
the King immediately commanded that they should be
made out: and at the same time with them, said he,
make out also those for Benvenuto, and carry
them immediately on my behalf to his dwelling, and
present them to him free of all expense. Those of the
great Piero Strozzi cost him many hundreds of ducats:
one of those principal secretaries of his (the King's) who
i Eldest son of Filippo Strozzi (see Book I, Chap. VII, Vol. I, p. 147,
n. 2). His father wished him to be created a Cardinal, but he devoted
himself totheserviceof arms, and wasaleaderof considerable ability.
Having fought at the head of the Florentine exiles at the disastrous
rout at Montemurlo, he subsequently enrolled himself in the French
army under King Francis I, from whom he obtained high reward
and honours. Amongst these were the Lordships of Belleville and
Epernay, the Order of Saint Michel, and a Marshalship of France.
He was also a man of culture, and published, under the pseudonym
of S*<rM7*r<3 Vz'<7?v7z^V;7, certain burlesque stanzas entitled Zzz ZLMm
zfz THznnw.? (" The Madness of Magon "). VARCHi <rz/.,
Vol. Ill, Lib. XIII) says that his was a noble spirit, venturesome
and thirsting for glory, but haughty, headstrong, and proud beyond
measure. He died at the age of fifty during the siege of Ihionville.