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328 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [me 11
divers accidents, the metal was hotter than the rules of
our profession prescribe; and also because I had had to
supplement the alloy after that fashion that has been
described with those plates of pewter, a thing that has
never been done by any one else. Now seeing my work
so successfully accomplished, I immediately went to Pisa
to see my Duke; who gave me as extremely cordial a
reception as it is possible to imagine in the world; and
the Duchess did likewise: and although that majordomo
of theirs had informed them of everything, it seemed to
Their Excellencies another thing more stupendous and
more wonderful still to hear me relate it by word of
mouth. And when I came to that foot of Ay^yy^y, which
had not succeeded as I had previously warned His Most
Illustrious Excellency, I saw him filled with astonishment;
and he recounted to the Duchess how I had told him of
it beforehand. Now when I saw these lords of mine so
agreeable towards me, I thereupon begged the Duke
to permit me to go to Rome. So he kindly gave me
permission, and told me that I must return speedily to
finish his Ay^yy?yy, and he wrote me letters of recommen-
dation to his Ambassador, who was Haverardo Serristorid
^ Ambassador in 1537 from Duke Cosimo to the Court of the
Emperor Charles V. The Duke directed him to demand from
His Imperial Majesty the person of Filippo Strozzi; but he only
obtained permission to examine him in a fortress as to his know-
ledge of the circumstances in connection with the murder of Duke
Alessandro. He also represented the Court of Florence in Rome
up to 1564. The history of his Embassies with notes has been pub-
lished by CANESTRINI (Firenze, Le Monnier, 1853). VARCHI in
Lib. XV of his says of him, "an illiterate young man,
rather greedy than thrifty, but in other respects prudent, eloquent,
agreeable, spirited, and extremely loyal."
divers accidents, the metal was hotter than the rules of
our profession prescribe; and also because I had had to
supplement the alloy after that fashion that has been
described with those plates of pewter, a thing that has
never been done by any one else. Now seeing my work
so successfully accomplished, I immediately went to Pisa
to see my Duke; who gave me as extremely cordial a
reception as it is possible to imagine in the world; and
the Duchess did likewise: and although that majordomo
of theirs had informed them of everything, it seemed to
Their Excellencies another thing more stupendous and
more wonderful still to hear me relate it by word of
mouth. And when I came to that foot of Ay^yy^y, which
had not succeeded as I had previously warned His Most
Illustrious Excellency, I saw him filled with astonishment;
and he recounted to the Duchess how I had told him of
it beforehand. Now when I saw these lords of mine so
agreeable towards me, I thereupon begged the Duke
to permit me to go to Rome. So he kindly gave me
permission, and told me that I must return speedily to
finish his Ay^yy?yy, and he wrote me letters of recommen-
dation to his Ambassador, who was Haverardo Serristorid
^ Ambassador in 1537 from Duke Cosimo to the Court of the
Emperor Charles V. The Duke directed him to demand from
His Imperial Majesty the person of Filippo Strozzi; but he only
obtained permission to examine him in a fortress as to his know-
ledge of the circumstances in connection with the murder of Duke
Alessandro. He also represented the Court of Florence in Rome
up to 1564. The history of his Embassies with notes has been pub-
lished by CANESTRINI (Firenze, Le Monnier, 1853). VARCHI in
Lib. XV of his says of him, "an illiterate young man,
rather greedy than thrifty, but in other respects prudent, eloquent,
agreeable, spirited, and extremely loyal."