Return to florence via chioggia

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini primary

In Venice Cellini visits Jacopo del Sansovino, defends Tribolino during an insulting bragging dinner, avoids another quarrel in an apothecary shop, then describes returning toward Florence via Chioggia with hostility and revenge on the inn.

LXXVII AFTER we had supped, a barge-man appeared, and offered to take us to Venice. I asked if he would let us have the boat to ourselves; he was willing, and so we made our bargain. In the morning we rose early, and mounted our horses for the port, which is a few miles distant from Ferrara. On arriving there, we found Niccolò Benintendi’s brother, with three comrades, waiting for me. They had among them two lances,…