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CHAPTER X
(1546-1547)
Cellini casts the bust of Duke Cosimo in bronze.—He constructs a
furnace in his own house and casts the but through the
evil speaking of Bandinelli the Duke diminishes the allowances
made to him.—Cellini complains of this, and with much difficulty
obtains some redress.—He prepares the sketch-model for a
pendant in which to set a diamond.—Owing to false accusations
made by Baldini, Cellini is reprimanded by the Duke, but de-
fends himself.—He presents the pendant to the Duchess and is
praised by her.—Cellini offers to make the Duke's coinage: but
does not however receive the assistance that he desires.—He
receives some silver from the Duke to make a vase, a commis-
sion which, through an unlucky combination of circumstances, is
taken away from him again.—He executes some small silver
vases for the Duchess.—Cellini goes to Fiesole to see a natural
son of his at nurse there. On his return journey he meets Bandi-
nelli and refrains from killing him.—The little boy is accid-
entally smothered. — Our hero's distress at this sad event.—
Bandinelli offers Cellini a block of marble.—Our hero sets a
small diamond into a ring for the Duchess.—The Duke shows
to him a mutilated fragment of an antique statue, which the
artist offers to restore as a <Tz37zy772z?44—Violent disputes between
Cellini and Bandinelli in the Duke's presence, and Benvenuto's
severe animadversions upon the latter's FAwrzz/yy %7zzf —
Having received a piece of marble he makes from it a group of
XyW/b%72<f F/yzzcz'zz^.—He restores the G<37zy772^zl?, and sculptures
a TVzz'Czyyzzy.—Floods in Florence.—A splinter of steel having
accidentally entered his eye, he is cured by Master Raffaello de'
Pilli, the surgeon.
A ND the first work that I cast in bronze was that
T3L large head, the portrait of the Lord Excellency
(.sir), which I had fashioned in clay in the Goldsmiths'
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(1546-1547)
Cellini casts the bust of Duke Cosimo in bronze.—He constructs a
furnace in his own house and casts the but through the
evil speaking of Bandinelli the Duke diminishes the allowances
made to him.—Cellini complains of this, and with much difficulty
obtains some redress.—He prepares the sketch-model for a
pendant in which to set a diamond.—Owing to false accusations
made by Baldini, Cellini is reprimanded by the Duke, but de-
fends himself.—He presents the pendant to the Duchess and is
praised by her.—Cellini offers to make the Duke's coinage: but
does not however receive the assistance that he desires.—He
receives some silver from the Duke to make a vase, a commis-
sion which, through an unlucky combination of circumstances, is
taken away from him again.—He executes some small silver
vases for the Duchess.—Cellini goes to Fiesole to see a natural
son of his at nurse there. On his return journey he meets Bandi-
nelli and refrains from killing him.—The little boy is accid-
entally smothered. — Our hero's distress at this sad event.—
Bandinelli offers Cellini a block of marble.—Our hero sets a
small diamond into a ring for the Duchess.—The Duke shows
to him a mutilated fragment of an antique statue, which the
artist offers to restore as a <Tz37zy772z?44—Violent disputes between
Cellini and Bandinelli in the Duke's presence, and Benvenuto's
severe animadversions upon the latter's FAwrzz/yy %7zzf —
Having received a piece of marble he makes from it a group of
XyW/b%72<f F/yzzcz'zz^.—He restores the G<37zy772^zl?, and sculptures
a TVzz'Czyyzzy.—Floods in Florence.—A splinter of steel having
accidentally entered his eye, he is cured by Master Raffaello de'
Pilli, the surgeon.
A ND the first work that I cast in bronze was that
T3L large head, the portrait of the Lord Excellency
(.sir), which I had fashioned in clay in the Goldsmiths'
279