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Often appears with: pope paul iii · political legitimacy and consent · diplomacy and embassies · courts, trials, and pleading · court audiences · charles v
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Cellini recounts the Pope’s favour after his unfinished work, including advice on how to present the work to Emperor Charles V and how to speak without reverence.
the Pope was astonished, and showed me the most distinguished signs of favour, conceding at the same time that that beast Juvenale should have nothing more to do with me. I had nearly brought my work to its completion when the Emperor arrived, and numerous triumphal arches of great magnificence were erected in his honour. He entered Rome with extraordinary pomp, the description of which I leave to others, since I me…