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i/o LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
Madama de Tampes had so much impudence as to say
to the King: " I believe that this devil will one day sack
Paris." At these words the King in a rage replied to
Madama de Tampes telling her, that I was doing very
right in defending myself from that rabble who wanted
to prevent me from being in his employ. Rage ever
waxed greater in this cruel woman: she summoned to her
a painter, who dwelt at Fontana Belio, where the King
resided almost continually. This painter was an Italian
and from Bologna, and was known as 77 for
his proper name he was called Francesco Primaticcio/
Madama di Tanpes told him that he should ask of
the King that commission for the fountain, which His
Majesty had conferred upon me, and that she would
help him in the matter with all her power. Thus they
agreed amongst themselves. This Bologna experienced
the greatest happiness that he had ever had, and he
thought the matter quite sure, although it was not his line
of work. But since he had a rather fine skill in design,
* Primaticcio, it would seem, was not sent to Paris by the Duke
of Mantua before 1533 : for it is not until that year that his name
appears on the zT^zyhzry of the Royal Office of Works. He was
certainly at Fontainebleau in 1540, where, as we are informed by
DELABORDE (Z% zThs- izr/y <?7z Tbwzci?), he cleaned and
restored Raphael's celebrated paintings: V/. V/. AAzr-
67. Hzzzzq and the TVrzTzzzY <?/* 77^ Fz7<77",?z7z<7 ^7 TVhyTH.
Francis I created him Abbot of Saint Martin de Troyes, and
Canon of the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. He laboured also in the
service of Kings Henry II and Francis II, who appointed him
superintendent of the Royal Office of Works with an annual allow-
ance of 2,000 francs. He died at an advanced age in 1370, and
was succeeded in his post by Ruggiero Ruggieri, aiso of Bologna.
C/i A. JAL, Zh7/z<?7272<2Z72? ^zYz'yzz^ <7? ^z'^'TVi^Azh Wz'jTVzv, etc.,
Paris, 1872. VASARI, Fz7q<?V. MlLANESlrzY., Vol. VII, p. 4o5,<?y%^7.
Madama de Tampes had so much impudence as to say
to the King: " I believe that this devil will one day sack
Paris." At these words the King in a rage replied to
Madama de Tampes telling her, that I was doing very
right in defending myself from that rabble who wanted
to prevent me from being in his employ. Rage ever
waxed greater in this cruel woman: she summoned to her
a painter, who dwelt at Fontana Belio, where the King
resided almost continually. This painter was an Italian
and from Bologna, and was known as 77 for
his proper name he was called Francesco Primaticcio/
Madama di Tanpes told him that he should ask of
the King that commission for the fountain, which His
Majesty had conferred upon me, and that she would
help him in the matter with all her power. Thus they
agreed amongst themselves. This Bologna experienced
the greatest happiness that he had ever had, and he
thought the matter quite sure, although it was not his line
of work. But since he had a rather fine skill in design,
* Primaticcio, it would seem, was not sent to Paris by the Duke
of Mantua before 1533 : for it is not until that year that his name
appears on the zT^zyhzry of the Royal Office of Works. He was
certainly at Fontainebleau in 1540, where, as we are informed by
DELABORDE (Z% zThs- izr/y <?7z Tbwzci?), he cleaned and
restored Raphael's celebrated paintings: V/. V/. AAzr-
67. Hzzzzq and the TVrzTzzzY <?/* 77^ Fz7<77",?z7z<7 ^7 TVhyTH.
Francis I created him Abbot of Saint Martin de Troyes, and
Canon of the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. He laboured also in the
service of Kings Henry II and Francis II, who appointed him
superintendent of the Royal Office of Works with an annual allow-
ance of 2,000 francs. He died at an advanced age in 1370, and
was succeeded in his post by Ruggiero Ruggieri, aiso of Bologna.
C/i A. JAL, Zh7/z<?7272<2Z72? ^zYz'yzz^ <7? ^z'^'TVi^Azh Wz'jTVzv, etc.,
Paris, 1872. VASARI, Fz7q<?V. MlLANESlrzY., Vol. VII, p. 4o5,<?y%^7.