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Often appears with: public finance and debt · money, coin, and credit · hercules in silver · gilt ceremonial objects · crafts, industry, and manufacture · counsel and advisers to rulers · contracts, oaths, and obligation · clay models · claude d’annebault aniballe · charles v · cardinal of ferrara pension
Usually: detachment (2) · narrative (1) · speech or oration (1) · betrayal (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · indignation (1)
He fits his workshop, models Jupiter, Vulcan, and Mars in clay, receives King’s silver for a Jupiter commission, gifts gilt objects to the King via the Cardinal of Ferrara, and deals with the Cardinal’s broken promise of a pension.
by the time I had finished the clay models of Jupiter, Vulcan, and Mars, and had begun to get the silver statue forward, my workshop made already a grand show. The King now came to Paris, and I went to pay him my respects. No sooner had his Majesty set eyes upon me than he called me cheerfully, and asked if I had something fine to exhibit at my lodging, for he would come to inspect it. I related all I had been doing…
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…