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192 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
wish." The notaries and the witnesses arrived; they
made a binding contract, and the wrath and
fever miraculously passed from me. I paid the notaries
and went away. The next day Bolognia came to Paris
on purpose, and caused Mattio del Nasaro to summon
me: I went and saw the said Bolognia, who with a cheer-
ful countenance came to meet me, begging me that I
would hold him as a good brother, and that he would
never more speak of that work: for he recognized very
well that I had reason.' If I did not say that in some
of these adventures of mine I realize that I did wrong,
those others wherein I know I did right would not pass
for truth: I know, however, that I made a mistake
in wishing to revenge myself so extravagantly upon
Pagolo Miccieri. Although, if I had thought that he
had been a man of such weakness of character, there
would never have come into my mind so shameful a
revenge as that which I wrought upon him: for it was
* This fountain, was, however, eventually completed by Prima-
ticcio. It may be as well to observe, moreover, that DiMiER
(/TvzzrA Y*7zz7zz'z7z^z7z CzyzZzzTy, London: Duckworth
and Co.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904, pp. 110-14)
traverses CELLINI'S version of this quarrel with arguments drawn
from documentary evidence still existing. From Yzw
MZz'77z^7zz'z' Yzz TtYz (I, p. 198) the same author has extracted the
following: .YYs YLM/Lgozz*, y^z^zzwzrwzzyzzzf 22 /a
7^727/222'^ ykzYj Y^yzfzYy ^z* czzy^TZ^y 7^? y^zzzz'zzTV, ySzkzzkf/a:/ ^
2Z2V2722zf7V772^7ZZ 2%7zfzY DCTYwY, <?/ 2277/27727727.7 ^"7*A ^72 yrZ^z77ZJ z/z? 2*^7*777^
<3 772272/z7 7272/z'yZZ^ ^77227^ /g ^^7^7*7772 22y? /727/2'A V77Z/zZZ7Z^. The ^^7*7*7772 in
this case does not mean "a flight of steps," but " a block of stone."
These payments were made to Primaticcio from 1541 to 1550. It
is therefore not easy to discover whether CELLINI wilfully lied, or
whether the fountain was allotted to his rival after his departure
from France.
wish." The notaries and the witnesses arrived; they
made a binding contract, and the wrath and
fever miraculously passed from me. I paid the notaries
and went away. The next day Bolognia came to Paris
on purpose, and caused Mattio del Nasaro to summon
me: I went and saw the said Bolognia, who with a cheer-
ful countenance came to meet me, begging me that I
would hold him as a good brother, and that he would
never more speak of that work: for he recognized very
well that I had reason.' If I did not say that in some
of these adventures of mine I realize that I did wrong,
those others wherein I know I did right would not pass
for truth: I know, however, that I made a mistake
in wishing to revenge myself so extravagantly upon
Pagolo Miccieri. Although, if I had thought that he
had been a man of such weakness of character, there
would never have come into my mind so shameful a
revenge as that which I wrought upon him: for it was
* This fountain, was, however, eventually completed by Prima-
ticcio. It may be as well to observe, moreover, that DiMiER
(/TvzzrA Y*7zz7zz'z7z^z7z CzyzZzzTy, London: Duckworth
and Co.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904, pp. 110-14)
traverses CELLINI'S version of this quarrel with arguments drawn
from documentary evidence still existing. From Yzw
MZz'77z^7zz'z' Yzz TtYz (I, p. 198) the same author has extracted the
following: .YYs YLM/Lgozz*, y^z^zzwzrwzzyzzzf 22 /a
7^727/222'^ ykzYj Y^yzfzYy ^z* czzy^TZ^y 7^? y^zzzz'zzTV, ySzkzzkf/a:/ ^
2Z2V2722zf7V772^7ZZ 2%7zfzY DCTYwY, <?/ 2277/27727727.7 ^"7*A ^72 yrZ^z77ZJ z/z? 2*^7*777^
<3 772272/z7 7272/z'yZZ^ ^77227^ /g ^^7^7*7772 22y? /727/2'A V77Z/zZZ7Z^. The ^^7*7*7772 in
this case does not mean "a flight of steps," but " a block of stone."
These payments were made to Primaticcio from 1541 to 1550. It
is therefore not easy to discover whether CELLINI wilfully lied, or
whether the fountain was allotted to his rival after his departure
from France.