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CH. xiv] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 387
Volterra. When I explained these arguments of mine
thus with some display of passion, I saw the Duke
getting into as great a rage as it is possible ever to
imagine. And when His Most Illustrious Excellency
had come to this pitch of fury he said to me: "This
case is like that of your for which you have
demanded ten thousand You allow yourself to
be too much overcome by your greed; therefore I wish
to have it valued, and I will give you for it all that
may be awarded against me." To these words I im-
mediately responded to some small extent too hotly
and half furiously, a thing which is not suitable to do
with great lords, and I said: "Oh! How is it possible
for the value of my work to be reckoned when there is
no man to-day in Florence who knows how to do it?"
Thereupon the Duke waxed more furious still, and ut-
tered many passionate expressions, amongst which he
said: "There is a man in Florence to-day, who should
know how to do a thing like that, and therefore he will
know very well how to judge it." He wished to allude
to Bandinello, Knight of S^° Jacopo. Then I said: "My
Lord, Your Most Illustrious Excellency has given me
the privilege of executing in the greatest School in the
World an important and very difficult work, which has
been praised more than any work that was ever unveiled
in this most divine School. And that which makes me
more proud is that of those brilliant men who under-
stand, and who belong to the profession, like Bronzino ^
1 CELLINI in his excitement has omitted the verb in the first
half of this sentence. Probably it should have run
etc. For Bronzino c/i Book II, Chap. XIII, .sw^Tiz,
p. 366, n. 1.
Volterra. When I explained these arguments of mine
thus with some display of passion, I saw the Duke
getting into as great a rage as it is possible ever to
imagine. And when His Most Illustrious Excellency
had come to this pitch of fury he said to me: "This
case is like that of your for which you have
demanded ten thousand You allow yourself to
be too much overcome by your greed; therefore I wish
to have it valued, and I will give you for it all that
may be awarded against me." To these words I im-
mediately responded to some small extent too hotly
and half furiously, a thing which is not suitable to do
with great lords, and I said: "Oh! How is it possible
for the value of my work to be reckoned when there is
no man to-day in Florence who knows how to do it?"
Thereupon the Duke waxed more furious still, and ut-
tered many passionate expressions, amongst which he
said: "There is a man in Florence to-day, who should
know how to do a thing like that, and therefore he will
know very well how to judge it." He wished to allude
to Bandinello, Knight of S^° Jacopo. Then I said: "My
Lord, Your Most Illustrious Excellency has given me
the privilege of executing in the greatest School in the
World an important and very difficult work, which has
been praised more than any work that was ever unveiled
in this most divine School. And that which makes me
more proud is that of those brilliant men who under-
stand, and who belong to the profession, like Bronzino ^
1 CELLINI in his excitement has omitted the verb in the first
half of this sentence. Probably it should have run
etc. For Bronzino c/i Book II, Chap. XIII, .sw^Tiz,
p. 366, n. 1.