Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: A Florentine ArtistG. Bell & sons, 1888 - 504 pages |
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... promised reward , which he expected would make his fortune , in a fit of passion he dashed his work to pieces ; for which he was basely denounced by the disappointed Spaniard to the Inquisition . In order to escape being burnt alive for ...
... promised reward , which he expected would make his fortune , in a fit of passion he dashed his work to pieces ; for which he was basely denounced by the disappointed Spaniard to the Inquisition . In order to escape being burnt alive for ...
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... promised to mend it without loss of time ; and this promise I performed , for it was brought me before dinner , and I finished it by ten o'clock at night . The person that left it with me then came in a most violent hurry , for my lord ...
... promised to mend it without loss of time ; and this promise I performed , for it was brought me before dinner , and I finished it by ten o'clock at night . The person that left it with me then came in a most violent hurry , for my lord ...
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... promised that the governor of Rome should give me no trouble . Thus we were recon- ciled , and I returned to my shop ; but I was scarce able to pass an hour without the company of the Neapolitan noble- man , who either visited me , or ...
... promised that the governor of Rome should give me no trouble . Thus we were recon- ciled , and I returned to my shop ; but I was scarce able to pass an hour without the company of the Neapolitan noble- man , who either visited me , or ...
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... promised . the barrel , which was filled with stones , fell to the ground , 66 Molza , and Ariosto . When he was governor of the March of Ancona in 1535 , Paul III . ordered him to be imprisoned in the castle of St. Angelo ; but he was ...
... promised . the barrel , which was filled with stones , fell to the ground , 66 Molza , and Ariosto . When he was governor of the March of Ancona in 1535 , Paul III . ordered him to be imprisoned in the castle of St. Angelo ; but he was ...
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... promised to obey him , he judged , like a man of sense , that in case Signor Orazio should come to Flo- rence , I should not fail , either through a regard to my pro- mise , or some other other motives , to embrace the military ...
... promised to obey him , he judged , like a man of sense , that in case Signor Orazio should come to Flo- rence , I should not fail , either through a regard to my pro- mise , or some other other motives , to embrace the military ...
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