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CH. xiii] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 349
was assigned the Porta alia Crocie; and to Giovan-
batista, called z7 was given the Porta a Pinti;
and similarly various other bastions and gates were
allotted to different engineers whom I do not remember,
nor does it make any difference to my argument.^ The
Duke, who really was always of excellent ability, of
his own accord went around his own city. And when
Flis Most Illustrious Excellency had well examined it,
and made up his mind, he summoned Lattanzio GorinU
who was one of his paymasters. And since this man also
dabbled somewhat in this profession, His Most Illus-
trious Excellency directed him to design all the methods
wherewith he desired the said gates to be fortified, and
to each one of us he sent the design for his gate; in
such a way that when I saw that (design) which was
allotted to me, and it seemed to me that the manner of
it was not in accordance with common sense, rather that
it was most incorrect, I immediately with this design
to attend " to the care of the bastions aforesaid, the artillery, and
whatsoever was needed by their Government" (ZV/z&Taz^zbzzz <?
V^zz^z4zzzz?zz/z 4i?^/z 4/ WzVzAz, Archivio di Stato di Firenze).
6/1 VASARI, ^4. MiLANESi rz'A, Vol. IV, p. 207
* (7/i Book I, Chap. Ill, Vol. I, p. 45, n. 2, and p. 253.
^ Among the ZV/z'Vz'zz.s'zwM ^ A/zzzz^z'zzzzz^zz/z of the O/A? 4z /Vz^zAz
in the Archivio above mentioned, on the back of page 22, under
date August 23rd 1554, we read as follows: "The aforesaid mag-
nificent Lords, the Eight, had agreed that to Tasso, to Cellino, to
Francesco da S. Gallo, and to the son of Baccio d'Agnolo, occupied
and employed on work of the fortifications, or rather the bastions
erected at some of the gates of the City of Florence, be paid at the
public expense at the rate of ten y<rzz4z' in money per month for all
that which they can demand for their labours and time spent upon
the said bastions."
3 ty Book II, Chap. VIII, yz^zv?, p. 251, n. 2.
was assigned the Porta alia Crocie; and to Giovan-
batista, called z7 was given the Porta a Pinti;
and similarly various other bastions and gates were
allotted to different engineers whom I do not remember,
nor does it make any difference to my argument.^ The
Duke, who really was always of excellent ability, of
his own accord went around his own city. And when
Flis Most Illustrious Excellency had well examined it,
and made up his mind, he summoned Lattanzio GorinU
who was one of his paymasters. And since this man also
dabbled somewhat in this profession, His Most Illus-
trious Excellency directed him to design all the methods
wherewith he desired the said gates to be fortified, and
to each one of us he sent the design for his gate; in
such a way that when I saw that (design) which was
allotted to me, and it seemed to me that the manner of
it was not in accordance with common sense, rather that
it was most incorrect, I immediately with this design
to attend " to the care of the bastions aforesaid, the artillery, and
whatsoever was needed by their Government" (ZV/z&Taz^zbzzz <?
V^zz^z4zzzz?zz/z 4i?^/z 4/ WzVzAz, Archivio di Stato di Firenze).
6/1 VASARI, ^4. MiLANESi rz'A, Vol. IV, p. 207
* (7/i Book I, Chap. Ill, Vol. I, p. 45, n. 2, and p. 253.
^ Among the ZV/z'Vz'zz.s'zwM ^ A/zzzz^z'zzzzz^zz/z of the O/A? 4z /Vz^zAz
in the Archivio above mentioned, on the back of page 22, under
date August 23rd 1554, we read as follows: "The aforesaid mag-
nificent Lords, the Eight, had agreed that to Tasso, to Cellino, to
Francesco da S. Gallo, and to the son of Baccio d'Agnolo, occupied
and employed on work of the fortifications, or rather the bastions
erected at some of the gates of the City of Florence, be paid at the
public expense at the rate of ten y<rzz4z' in money per month for all
that which they can demand for their labours and time spent upon
the said bastions."
3 ty Book II, Chap. VIII, yz^zv?, p. 251, n. 2.