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CH. v] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 175
him of the use of both legs. Then I sought out that
other person who had purchased the suit and wounded
him also in such a way that he abandoned that suit.
Thanking God always for this and every other thing,
thinking from that time to remain awhile without being
molested, I told the young men of my household, es-
pecially the Italians, that for the Love of God everyone
of them should attend to his own jobs, and assist me
for some time, in order that I might be enabled to finish
those works of mine that had been begun; for I should
soon complete them. Then I would return to Italy
not being able to bear with the rogueries of those
French people: and if that good King was once en-
raged against me, he would have made it bad for me,
for I had done in my own defence many things of such
a kind/ These said Italians ^ were, the hrst and dearest,
Ascanio, from a place called Taglia cozze in the King-
dom of Naples: the second was Pagolo, a Roman, a
person born of a very humble origin, and whose
father was unknown: these two were the men whom
I had brought from Rome, who were with me in that
said (city of) Rome. Another Roman had also come
from Rome on purpose to find me. This man was also
called Pagolo by name, and he was the son of an im-
poverished Roman noble of the family of the Macharoni.
^ /.<?., acts of violence.
" Little is known regarding the pupils here mentioned by CELLINI,
except Ascanio and Paolo, of whom record is to be found allusive
to their residence in France. GUASTI suggests that this Paolo
Macharoni may be a relative of the Cesare Maccheroni (see
Book I, Chap. XI, Vol. I, p. 210 above), Roman citizen and die-
stamper at the Pontifical Mint, who was imprisoned and hanged
for false coining.
him of the use of both legs. Then I sought out that
other person who had purchased the suit and wounded
him also in such a way that he abandoned that suit.
Thanking God always for this and every other thing,
thinking from that time to remain awhile without being
molested, I told the young men of my household, es-
pecially the Italians, that for the Love of God everyone
of them should attend to his own jobs, and assist me
for some time, in order that I might be enabled to finish
those works of mine that had been begun; for I should
soon complete them. Then I would return to Italy
not being able to bear with the rogueries of those
French people: and if that good King was once en-
raged against me, he would have made it bad for me,
for I had done in my own defence many things of such
a kind/ These said Italians ^ were, the hrst and dearest,
Ascanio, from a place called Taglia cozze in the King-
dom of Naples: the second was Pagolo, a Roman, a
person born of a very humble origin, and whose
father was unknown: these two were the men whom
I had brought from Rome, who were with me in that
said (city of) Rome. Another Roman had also come
from Rome on purpose to find me. This man was also
called Pagolo by name, and he was the son of an im-
poverished Roman noble of the family of the Macharoni.
^ /.<?., acts of violence.
" Little is known regarding the pupils here mentioned by CELLINI,
except Ascanio and Paolo, of whom record is to be found allusive
to their residence in France. GUASTI suggests that this Paolo
Macharoni may be a relative of the Cesare Maccheroni (see
Book I, Chap. XI, Vol. I, p. 210 above), Roman citizen and die-
stamper at the Pontifical Mint, who was imprisoned and hanged
for false coining.