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384 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
Misser Alamanno Salviati/ and she made sport of me,
saying that all the evil that I had received was good for me.
The Duke directed that I should be paid one hundred gold
in gold per month, up to the said amount, and thus
several months passed by. Afterwards Misser Antonio
de' Nobili ^ who had had the said commission, began by
giving me fifty, and then sometimes he gave me 25, and
sometimes he gave me nothing; in such a way that when
I saw the matter thus so long drawn out I asked the said
Misser Antonio civilly, begging him that he would tell
me the reason why he did not complete my payments.
He also replied to me courteously; in the which reply it
seemed to me that he wandered from the point a little
too much, as let him judge who understands the matter.
He first of all told me that the reason why he did not
continue my payments was on account of the very great
shortness (of money) that they were suffering from at the
Palace, but he promised me that when money came to
him he would pay me; and he added, saying: " Alas! If
I do not pay you I shall be a great scoundrel." I was
astounded to hear him make such a speech, but on that
account he promised me that when he could I should be
paid. Wherefore when it turned out exactly the opposite,
* Son of Jacopo Salviati and maternal uncle to the Duke. He
was an idle person, who took no interest whatsoever in public
affairs. Qf VARCHi, AA, Book III, p. 197.
^ Comptroller-General of the Treasury to Duke Cosimo from
1553 until his death in 1362. VARCHI (VAw.yf'W- AA, Vol. II,
p. 132) mentions him amongst the supporters of the Medici, for
which reason he was declared rebel in 1529. He bore the nick-
name -SAA<3rA<3 (" man-trap"). He is frequently alluded to by
CELLINI in the (<?rA MiLANESi AA, pp. 262, 302-305).
VASARI tells us (PzA?, <?<A. MiLANESi AA, Vol. VII, p. 109) he
painted his portrait.
Misser Alamanno Salviati/ and she made sport of me,
saying that all the evil that I had received was good for me.
The Duke directed that I should be paid one hundred gold
in gold per month, up to the said amount, and thus
several months passed by. Afterwards Misser Antonio
de' Nobili ^ who had had the said commission, began by
giving me fifty, and then sometimes he gave me 25, and
sometimes he gave me nothing; in such a way that when
I saw the matter thus so long drawn out I asked the said
Misser Antonio civilly, begging him that he would tell
me the reason why he did not complete my payments.
He also replied to me courteously; in the which reply it
seemed to me that he wandered from the point a little
too much, as let him judge who understands the matter.
He first of all told me that the reason why he did not
continue my payments was on account of the very great
shortness (of money) that they were suffering from at the
Palace, but he promised me that when money came to
him he would pay me; and he added, saying: " Alas! If
I do not pay you I shall be a great scoundrel." I was
astounded to hear him make such a speech, but on that
account he promised me that when he could I should be
paid. Wherefore when it turned out exactly the opposite,
* Son of Jacopo Salviati and maternal uncle to the Duke. He
was an idle person, who took no interest whatsoever in public
affairs. Qf VARCHi, AA, Book III, p. 197.
^ Comptroller-General of the Treasury to Duke Cosimo from
1553 until his death in 1362. VARCHI (VAw.yf'W- AA, Vol. II,
p. 132) mentions him amongst the supporters of the Medici, for
which reason he was declared rebel in 1529. He bore the nick-
name -SAA<3rA<3 (" man-trap"). He is frequently alluded to by
CELLINI in the (<?rA MiLANESi AA, pp. 262, 302-305).
VASARI tells us (PzA?, <?<A. MiLANESi AA, Vol. VII, p. 109) he
painted his portrait.