Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: A Florentine ArtistG. Bell & sons, 1888 - 504 pages |
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... hundred . As they were one day removing a water - pipe , a large scorpion , which they had not perceived , came out of it : the scorpion descended upon the ground and had got under a great bench , when I , seeing it , ran and caught it ...
... hundred . As they were one day removing a water - pipe , a large scorpion , which they had not perceived , came out of it : the scorpion descended upon the ground and had got under a great bench , when I , seeing it , ran and caught it ...
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... hundred crowns . The lady declared that I had judged very rightly , and then asked whether I would undertake to set them properly ; I answered that I would do it most willingly ; and began the design in her presence , in which I was the ...
... hundred crowns . The lady declared that I had judged very rightly , and then asked whether I would undertake to set them properly ; I answered that I would do it most willingly ; and began the design in her presence , in which I was the ...
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... hundred gold crowns , desiring him to divide them amongst the band , and let me have my share . Giacomo having quitted the Pope , came to us and repeated word for word all that his Holiness had said . Having then divided the money ...
... hundred gold crowns , desiring him to divide them amongst the band , and let me have my share . Giacomo having quitted the Pope , came to us and repeated word for word all that his Holiness had said . Having then divided the money ...
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... hundred crowns and upwards . I could not help desiring to rival so eminent an artist , though this business widely differs from that of the jeweller and goldsmith ; but Lautizio , who was master of the art of seal - making , seemed to ...
... hundred crowns and upwards . I could not help desiring to rival so eminent an artist , though this business widely differs from that of the jeweller and goldsmith ; but Lautizio , who was master of the art of seal - making , seemed to ...
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... by which Rome lost more than eighteen thousand inhabitants . It continued , at different periods , for two or three years , and 50,000 of the Milanese died in four months . the ball , it carried two hundred paces point blank CH. V.] ...
... by which Rome lost more than eighteen thousand inhabitants . It continued , at different periods , for two or three years , and 50,000 of the Milanese died in four months . the ball , it carried two hundred paces point blank CH. V.] ...
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