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CH. v] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI iyi
and had contracted with certain workmen, who had been
trained under the direction of 77 a Florentine
painter of ours, a truly and most wondrously able man,
whatever of merit he executed he had acquired from
the splendid example of the said Rosso, who was already
dead/ Those crafty arguments together with the
great assistance of Madama di Tampes, and with the
continual hammering day and night, now of Madama,
and now of Bologna, prevailed in the ears of that great
King. And that which was the potent cause of making
him yield was that she and Bologna with one accord
said: " How is it possible, Sacred Majesty, for Benvenuto,
according to your wish, to make twelve silver statues?
wherefore he has not yet completed one? And if you
employ him in so great an undertaking as this (?Y., the
fountain) it is necessary that of these other (objects),
which you desire so much, you must certainly be de-
prived: for one hundred most able men could not com-
plete such vast works as this clever man has planned out.
It is very clear that he has a great desire for work: the
which very thing will be the cause of Your Majesty's
losing both him and the commissions at one blow." These
with many other similar words chancing to hnd the King
in the humour he consented to all that they had asked
of him; although at that time neither the designs nor
models for anything by the said Bologna's own hand
had ever been shown to him. At this same time in
Paris that second tenant, whom I had driven from my
had taken action against me, and he had com-
menced a law-suit against me, saying that I had stolen
a great quantity of his goods when I had dislodged him.
' <y Book I, Chap. V, Vol. I, p. 88, n. i.
and had contracted with certain workmen, who had been
trained under the direction of 77 a Florentine
painter of ours, a truly and most wondrously able man,
whatever of merit he executed he had acquired from
the splendid example of the said Rosso, who was already
dead/ Those crafty arguments together with the
great assistance of Madama di Tampes, and with the
continual hammering day and night, now of Madama,
and now of Bologna, prevailed in the ears of that great
King. And that which was the potent cause of making
him yield was that she and Bologna with one accord
said: " How is it possible, Sacred Majesty, for Benvenuto,
according to your wish, to make twelve silver statues?
wherefore he has not yet completed one? And if you
employ him in so great an undertaking as this (?Y., the
fountain) it is necessary that of these other (objects),
which you desire so much, you must certainly be de-
prived: for one hundred most able men could not com-
plete such vast works as this clever man has planned out.
It is very clear that he has a great desire for work: the
which very thing will be the cause of Your Majesty's
losing both him and the commissions at one blow." These
with many other similar words chancing to hnd the King
in the humour he consented to all that they had asked
of him; although at that time neither the designs nor
models for anything by the said Bologna's own hand
had ever been shown to him. At this same time in
Paris that second tenant, whom I had driven from my
had taken action against me, and he had com-
menced a law-suit against me, saying that I had stolen
a great quantity of his goods when I had dislodged him.
' <y Book I, Chap. V, Vol. I, p. 88, n. i.