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244 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
Our Duke of Florence ^ at this time (for we were in the
month of August in (the year) 1545) being at Poggio a
Caiano," a spot ten miles distant from Florence, I went
to seek him there, merely to pay my duty, since I also
was a Florentine citizen, and because my ancestors had
been great friends of the House of Medici: and because
I more than any of them loved this Duke Cosimo. As I
say I went to the said Poggio, merely to pay my respects,
and never with any intention of stopping with him,
as it pleased God, Who does all things well: when the
said Duke seeing me, thereupon showed me the most
unlimited civilities, and he and the Duchess" asked
in 1570 BENVENUTO states that he had come back to Italy by the
gracious permission of King Francis " to set in order the affairs of
my six nieces, the daughters of my own sister: and it suited me to
espouse her again in a quarter wherein I might employ all that
money which I had brought with me." From this statement we may
suppose that this marriage took place not long after the artist's
arrival in Florence and soon after the death of Tassi. (Qf RUSCONI
and VALERI <rz7., p. 568 <? -svgg*.). This, however, is uncertain, since
there is no mention of this third husband in the earlier
than September 29th 1550, although from that source we learn that
his name was Paolo Paolini. He was a goldsmith by trade, and
worked with Cellini, receiving payment from him for work upon
the
* Cosimo I de' Medici became Duke in 1537 and Grand-Duke in
1570.
3 Formerly a castle belonging to the Cancellieri family of Pistoja
and subsequently to the Strozzi, and the Medici. Lorenzo the Mag-
nifico built there the present splendid Royal Villa, after designs by
Giuliano da San Gallo, and the Great Hall was further adorned
under the directions of Leo X in memory of his august father, by the
work of Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio, Pontormo, Andrea di
Cosimo Feltrini, and Alessandro Allori.
3 Eleonora di Toledo, daughter of Pietro Alvarez, Viceroy of
Naples, married to the Grand-Duke Cosimo I in 1539. In
Our Duke of Florence ^ at this time (for we were in the
month of August in (the year) 1545) being at Poggio a
Caiano," a spot ten miles distant from Florence, I went
to seek him there, merely to pay my duty, since I also
was a Florentine citizen, and because my ancestors had
been great friends of the House of Medici: and because
I more than any of them loved this Duke Cosimo. As I
say I went to the said Poggio, merely to pay my respects,
and never with any intention of stopping with him,
as it pleased God, Who does all things well: when the
said Duke seeing me, thereupon showed me the most
unlimited civilities, and he and the Duchess" asked
in 1570 BENVENUTO states that he had come back to Italy by the
gracious permission of King Francis " to set in order the affairs of
my six nieces, the daughters of my own sister: and it suited me to
espouse her again in a quarter wherein I might employ all that
money which I had brought with me." From this statement we may
suppose that this marriage took place not long after the artist's
arrival in Florence and soon after the death of Tassi. (Qf RUSCONI
and VALERI <rz7., p. 568 <? -svgg*.). This, however, is uncertain, since
there is no mention of this third husband in the earlier
than September 29th 1550, although from that source we learn that
his name was Paolo Paolini. He was a goldsmith by trade, and
worked with Cellini, receiving payment from him for work upon
the
* Cosimo I de' Medici became Duke in 1537 and Grand-Duke in
1570.
3 Formerly a castle belonging to the Cancellieri family of Pistoja
and subsequently to the Strozzi, and the Medici. Lorenzo the Mag-
nifico built there the present splendid Royal Villa, after designs by
Giuliano da San Gallo, and the Great Hall was further adorned
under the directions of Leo X in memory of his august father, by the
work of Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio, Pontormo, Andrea di
Cosimo Feltrini, and Alessandro Allori.
3 Eleonora di Toledo, daughter of Pietro Alvarez, Viceroy of
Naples, married to the Grand-Duke Cosimo I in 1539. In