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Often appears with: silver jupiter · public finance and debt · hercules in silver · counsel and advisers to rulers · charles v
Usually: speech or oration (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · detachment (1)
Instead of finalizing the cardinal’s plan, the King visits Cellini’s house and compares his silver Jupiter favorably to an ugly silver Hercules made for the Emperor; the King orders abbeys worth about two thousand crowns a year for Cellini through the Admiral Aniballe.
XXXIX AS I have just said, his Majesty affected to concur with the Cardinal, but his own private mind was otherwise made up. Accordingly, upon the day after his arrival, without solicitation upon my part, he came of his own accord to my house. I went to meet him, and conducted him through several rooms where divers works of art were on view. Beginning with the less important, I pointed out a quantity of things in br…