Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: A Florentine ArtistWiley & Putnam, 1845 |
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Page 147 - When the magician had performed the rest of his ceremonies, he stripped off his gown, and took up a wallet full of books which he had brought with him. We all went out of the circle together, keeping as close to each other as we possibly could, especially the boy, who had placed himself in the middle, holding the necromancer by the coat and me by the cloak. As we were going to our houses in the quarter of Banchi, the boy told us that two of the demons whom we had seen at the amphitheatre went on...
Page 246 - ... himself metamorphosed into a pitcher of oil; another time he thought himself a frog, and began to leap as such ; another time again he imagined he was dead, and it was found necessary to humour his conceit by making a show of burying him : thus had he every year some new frenzy.
Page 145 - Romoli who had been my companion the first time, and one Agnolino Gaddi, an intimate acquaintance, whom I likewise prevailed on to assist at the ceremony. When we came to the place appointed, the priest having made his preparations as before, with the same and even more striking ceremonies, placed us within the circle, which he had likewise drawn with a more wonderful art, and in a more solemn manner than at our former meeting. Thus, having committed the care of the perfumes and the fire to my friend...
Page 117 - I with great address came close up to him with a long dagger, and gave him a violent back-handed stroke which I had aimed at his neck. He instantly turned round, and the blow falling directly upon his left shoulder, broke the whole bone of it; upon which he dropped his sword, quite overcome by the pain, and took to his heels. I pursued, and in four steps came up with him, when raising the dagger over his head, which he lowered down, I hit him exactly upon the nape of the neck. The weapon penetrated...
Page 84 - I entreated his holiness to absolve me from the guilt of homicide, as likewise from other crimes which I had committed in that castle in the service of the church. The Pope, lifting up his hands, and making the sign of the cross over me, said, that he blessed me, and gave me his absolution, for all the homicides that I had ever committed, or ever should commit, in the service of the apostolical church.
Page 144 - Let them bring me into the company of my Sicilian mistress, Angelica." That night we obtained no answer of any sort ; but I had received great satisfaction in having my curiosity so far indulged. The necromancer told me it was requisite we should go a second time, assuring me, that I should be satisfied in whatever I asked, but that I must bring with me a pure and immaculate boy.
Page 146 - I was as much terrified as any of them, I did my utmost to conceal the terror I felt ; so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution; but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid fright the necromancer was in. The boy placed his head between his knees, and said, — ' In this posture will I die ; for we shall all surely perish...
Page 23 - I was extremely irritated, and doubling my fist gave him such a violent blow on the nose that I felt the bone and cartilage yield as if they had been made of paste, and the mark I then gave him he will carry to his grave.
Page 145 - The necromancer having begun to make his tremendous invocations, called by their names a multitude of demons, who were the leaders of the several legions, and questioned them by the virtue and power of the eternal uncreated God, who lives for ever, in the Hebrew language, as likewise in Latin and Greek ; insomuch, that the amphitheatre was almost in an instant filled with demons a hundred times more numerous than at the former conjuration. Vincenzio...
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