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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Little, Brown and company Subjects: France Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / Europe / France Literary Criticism / European / French Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. SCOZZONE. When Benvenuto Cellini arrived in France, Francois I. was at the chateau of Fontainebleau with his whole court. The artist stopped in the town, sending word of his arrival to the Cardinal of Ferrara. The cardinal, who knew that the king was impatiently awaiting his coming, at once transmitted the intelligence to his Majesty. Benvenuto was received by the king the same day. Benvenuto, he said, addressing him in that mellifluous and expressive tongue in which the artist wrote so well,
for a few days, while you are recovering from your fatigue and vexation, repose, enjoy yourself, make merry, and meanwhile we will reflect and determine upon some noble work for you to execute. Thereupon he ordered apartments in the chateau to be made ready for the artist, and that he should want for nothing. Thus Benvenuto found himself at the outset installed in the very centre of French civilization, at that time behind that of Italy, with which it was already struggling for supremacy, and which it was soon to surpass. As he looked around, he could easily believe that he had never left the Tuscan capital, for he found himself in the midst of the’ arts and artists he had known at Florence; Primaticcio had succeeded Leonardo da Vinci and Rosso. It was for Benvenuto, therefore, to show himself not unworthy of these illustrious predecessors, and to carry the art of statuary as high in the eyes of the most gallan…
