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326 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. i
they had learnt and seen how to do things which by
other masters were held to be impossible. I too, some-
what puffed up—fancying myself rather talented—
prided myself about the matter: and putting my hand
into my purse I paid everyone and satisfied them.
That evil man, my mortal enemy, Messer Pierfrancesco
Ricci/ the Duke's Majordomo, sought with much dili-
gence to learn how the matter had passed off: in such
fashion that those two of whom I had always had my
suspicions that they had caused that cake to come about,
said that I was not a human being: rather I was cer-
tainly some powerful fiend, for I had done that which
Art could not accomplish; as well as many other
important matters, which would have been too much
for any ordinary fiend. And since they kept saying much
more than had (actually) occurred, perhaps to excuse
themselves, the said majordomo wrote immediately to
the Duke, who was at Pisa, yet more alarmingly
about it, and full of greater marvels than they had told
him/
When I had let my (newly) cast work cool for two days
I began to uncover it by slow degrees. And I found, the
first thing, the head of which had come out
most excellently by reason of the air vents, just as I had
told the Duke that the nature of fire was to go upwards.
' Qf Book II, Chap. VIII, p. 250, n. 1.
^ So runs the MS.; but CAR-
PANI thinks that the singular number should be used as referring
to the ?72Ah7 yVzz TASSI and BlANCHI, on
the other hand, suggest either that the amanuensis omitted to write
cz77Z y5%72?Z? y$zk72<? (with words full), or that CELLINI himself, paying
no attention to the rules of syntax, intends to refer that adjective
to the word implied in the verb jrz'zAz?.
they had learnt and seen how to do things which by
other masters were held to be impossible. I too, some-
what puffed up—fancying myself rather talented—
prided myself about the matter: and putting my hand
into my purse I paid everyone and satisfied them.
That evil man, my mortal enemy, Messer Pierfrancesco
Ricci/ the Duke's Majordomo, sought with much dili-
gence to learn how the matter had passed off: in such
fashion that those two of whom I had always had my
suspicions that they had caused that cake to come about,
said that I was not a human being: rather I was cer-
tainly some powerful fiend, for I had done that which
Art could not accomplish; as well as many other
important matters, which would have been too much
for any ordinary fiend. And since they kept saying much
more than had (actually) occurred, perhaps to excuse
themselves, the said majordomo wrote immediately to
the Duke, who was at Pisa, yet more alarmingly
about it, and full of greater marvels than they had told
him/
When I had let my (newly) cast work cool for two days
I began to uncover it by slow degrees. And I found, the
first thing, the head of which had come out
most excellently by reason of the air vents, just as I had
told the Duke that the nature of fire was to go upwards.
' Qf Book II, Chap. VIII, p. 250, n. 1.
^ So runs the MS.; but CAR-
PANI thinks that the singular number should be used as referring
to the ?72Ah7 yVzz TASSI and BlANCHI, on
the other hand, suggest either that the amanuensis omitted to write
cz77Z y5%72?Z? y$zk72<? (with words full), or that CELLINI himself, paying
no attention to the rules of syntax, intends to refer that adjective
to the word implied in the verb jrz'zAz?.