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EPILOGUE
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untimely death he so feelingly alludes in Book II,
Chap. Xd Besides these we find record of no less than
six others, as follows: Uz'<w%777zz, born November
2/th 1553,and legitimatized in 1334;^ Uz'<w%7Z7zz, born in
1361, March 22nd, legitimatized the following Novem-
ber, whose death in May, 1363, was the occasion of a
very touching letter to Benedetto Varchi from the
broken-hearted father; ^/z'.y<3^z%z, born October 29th
1362, died September 21st 1563; Zz'^Z'ZzAz or 2?y<37AxAz,
born January 13th 1564; TU^^h/^zzzz, born September
3rd 1566 (married to ser Noferi di Bartolomeo Mac-
canti), and Xzzzfz^rz Xzzzzczz;?, born March 21st 1369. Of
these children only the last three appear to have been
legitimated
Besides these children of his own, Cellini, out of a feel-
ing of mistaken kindness, adopted, in November 1360, the
son of his model Dorotea and of her husband, Domenico
Parigi, commonly known as N^zzA%.f^7Z7zz'. This Sputasenni
was a most worthless fellow, who, being arrested for some
brawl, was condemned to serve a term of imprisonment
in the Stinche. Cellini, who had already bestowed a
dowry of one hundred jzzzzdz' upon the wife, finding her
left without means of support, received her with her two
children, Xzz^zzzh and dlfzzz^^^zY^, into his own house
on July 8th 1559; and eleven months later—having at
that time no surviving son of his own—undertook to adopt
the boy (under the name of TVzz^zzz;?—diminutive of Ben-
* pp. 292, 293.
^ As has been already suggested, it is possible, and even probable,
that the little boy who, we are told, was accidentally smothered by
his foster-mother, and the infant Jacopo Giovanni may be one and
the same individual.
3 (y RUSCONI and VALERI, <y. ri/., p. 579, Doc. LIIL
443
untimely death he so feelingly alludes in Book II,
Chap. Xd Besides these we find record of no less than
six others, as follows: Uz'<w%777zz, born November
2/th 1553,and legitimatized in 1334;^ Uz'<w%7Z7zz, born in
1361, March 22nd, legitimatized the following Novem-
ber, whose death in May, 1363, was the occasion of a
very touching letter to Benedetto Varchi from the
broken-hearted father; ^/z'.y<3^z%z, born October 29th
1362, died September 21st 1563; Zz'^Z'ZzAz or 2?y<37AxAz,
born January 13th 1564; TU^^h/^zzzz, born September
3rd 1566 (married to ser Noferi di Bartolomeo Mac-
canti), and Xzzzfz^rz Xzzzzczz;?, born March 21st 1369. Of
these children only the last three appear to have been
legitimated
Besides these children of his own, Cellini, out of a feel-
ing of mistaken kindness, adopted, in November 1360, the
son of his model Dorotea and of her husband, Domenico
Parigi, commonly known as N^zzA%.f^7Z7zz'. This Sputasenni
was a most worthless fellow, who, being arrested for some
brawl, was condemned to serve a term of imprisonment
in the Stinche. Cellini, who had already bestowed a
dowry of one hundred jzzzzdz' upon the wife, finding her
left without means of support, received her with her two
children, Xzz^zzzh and dlfzzz^^^zY^, into his own house
on July 8th 1559; and eleven months later—having at
that time no surviving son of his own—undertook to adopt
the boy (under the name of TVzz^zzz;?—diminutive of Ben-
* pp. 292, 293.
^ As has been already suggested, it is possible, and even probable,
that the little boy who, we are told, was accidentally smothered by
his foster-mother, and the infant Jacopo Giovanni may be one and
the same individual.
3 (y RUSCONI and VALERI, <y. ri/., p. 579, Doc. LIIL