Cellini, Giovanni (BC’s father): Florentine origins, 2; birth, 4; marriage, 4–5; musicianship, 4, 7–8; professional and artistic skills, 4, 7; and BC’s birth, 5–6; and BC’s musical life, 7–9, 11, 12, 14, 16–17, 32–5; poetry, 9; and downfall of Piero the fifer, 12–14; and BC’s absence in Pisa, 15–16; welcomes BC on return to Florence, 16–17; and BC’s escape from Florence, 27; answers member of Eight, 32; BC sends and gives money to, 32, 46, 70; and Jacopo Salviati, 65; welcomes BC on return from siege of Rome, 69; dies of plague, 72
Cellini, Girolamo (BC’s uncle), 4, 12
Cellini, Liperata (or Reparata; BC’s sister): first marriage (to Bartolomeo), 70; remarriage, 72–3; survives plague, 72–3; BC bequeaths money to, 150; welcomes BC after recovery from illlness, 154; BC visits on journey to France, 239, 244; BC meets on return from France, 313, 318; children, 313; and death of second husband (Raffaello Tassi), 320; with BC in Florence, 328
Cellini, Luca, 3
Cencio (BC’s apprentice), 320, 325
Cencio (BC’s servant), 114–16, 145–7, 152
Centano, Andrea, 208–9
Ceri, Lorenzo da, 39, 60
Cerveteri, 46
Cesano, Gabriello Maria da, 236–8
Cesare (Duke Cosimo’s keeper of wardrobe), 381
Ceserino, Gabriello, 38
Cesi, Agnolo da, 178
Charles V, Emperor: power, viii; elected Emperor, ix; war with Francis I, 59, 269, 294, 301–2; exchanges gifts with Paul III, 161–4, 168; returns from Tunis expedition, 161; BC meets, 163–4
Charles VIII, King of France, viii
Cherubino see Sforzani, Cherubino
Chiavelluzzi, Pietro, 205
Chigi, Agostino, 28
Chigi, Sigismondo, 28
Chigi, Sulpicia (née Petrucci), 28
Chioccia, Bartolomeo, 279–80, 287–8
Chiostra, Ulivieri della, 15–16
Cibo, Cardinal Innocenzo, 38
Cibo, Lorenzo, 134
Cisti (Lombard Captain), 86
Clement VII, Pope (earlier Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici): BC serves, 99, 125; illness and death, xi, 126–7; BC makes medals and coins for, xv, 82–3, 85, 95, 113, 117, 125–7, 141, 143; recalls BC from Siena to Florence, 11; elected Pope, 27; Lucagnolo makes bowl for, 30; offers musical post to BC, 33–4; and BC’s dispute over Bishop of Salamanca’s vase, 38; and Charles V’s war with Francis I, 59; in siege of Rome (1527), 61, 63, 65–9, 186; absolves BC of homicide, 66; declares war on Florence, 74; invites BC to return to service, 75–7; forgives BC’s taking gold from Rome, 77–8; BC makes clasp (morse) for cope, 78–82, 85, 90, 92, 95, 97, 103, 164; and BC’s robbery, 94–5; and counterfeit money, 95–6; BC makes chalice for, 98, 100–11, 161; dispute with BC over chalice, 105–12; presents mounted unicorn’s horn to Francis I, 105; and BC’s supposed murder of Tobbia, 119–20, 125–6; supposed paternity of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici, 158; and BC’s arrest for theft by Paul III, 186–8
Colonna, Stefano, 337
Concino, Bartolomeo, 397
Condivi, Ascanio, xiii
Conversini, Benedetto (later Bishop of Jesi), 185–7, 204–6
Cordinai, Antonio di Bartolomeo see San Gallo, Antonio da, the Younger
Cornaro, Cardinal Francesco: apprehends BC after murder of Pompeo, 129–30; and BC’s recovery from illness, 154; and BC’s imprisonment, 193; protects BC after escape from Castel Sant’Angelo, 202–3, 208–10; requests bishopric for Centano, 208
Cortese, Tommaso (da Prato), 82
Cortona, Giorgio da, 331
Costanza (BC’s child by Gianna), 293
Counter-Reformation, viii
Crespino, Vittorio (chief constable of Rome), 145, 147, 185
Croce, Baccino (Bernardino) della, 86, 112
Croce, Giovanni, 86
Crucifix (BC; sculpture), xv, 385, 387, 399
Cust, Robert, xvi
Dante Alighieri, xiv, 149, 278
Danti, Vincenzo, 388
Dauphiné, 253
Diego, Don (Spaniard in Rome), 169–71
Diego (Spanish boy), xi, 48–51, 53
Donatello, 315, 328, 330
Donnino (goldsmith), 96
Durante, Durante (of Brescia), xi, 163–4, 225–7
Eleonora de Toledo see Medici, Eleonora de Toledo de’, Duchess of Tuscany
Ercole del Piffero, 12
Eremo, 372
Este, Alfonso I d’ see Ferrara, Duke of
Este, Ercole II d’ see Ferrara, Duke of
Este, Ippolito d’, Cardinal of Ferrara: BC meets in France, 179–80; commissions jug and basin from BC, 180, 183, 192, 236, 245–6, 248, 251, 259; and Francis I’s invitation to BC, 183–4, 246–7; gains BC’s release from prison, 228–9, 245; BC makes seal for, 236–7; BC stays with, 236; BC makes model of salt-cellar for, 237–9, 261; journey to France, 239, 244; BC meets at Fontainebleau, 251; and BC’s service with Francis I, 252–3, 255, 260–1, 307; Francis I gives abbey to, 259; BC makes small objects for, 268; withholds payment from BC, 293–5; and Francis I’s rebuke of BC, 306; and BC’s request for leave from Francis I, 308; conspires against BC on departure from France, 311; BC sends letter to Francis I to, 323
Étampes, Anne de Brosse, Duchesse d’ (née de Pisseleu): visits BC at work, 259; BC makes silver vase for, 268, 272; and Francis I’s wish to engage BC, 269; enmity with BC, 272–3, 275–6, 296, 298–301, 303, 306; and il Bologna (Primaticcio), 284–5; and BC’s Jupiter, 298–9; slanders BC to Francis I, 302–3, 306; and treaty with Emperor Charles, 302
Fa, Jacques, Monseigneur de la, 284, 304
Fagiuolo, il see Tommaso d’Antonio
Fano, Lodovico da see Lodovico da Fano
Farfa, Badia di (abbey), 116
Farnese, Cardinal Alessandro see Paul III, Pope
Farnese, Cardinal Alessandro, Archbishop of Parma (son of Pier Luigi), 228
Farnese, Ottavio, Duke, 202
Farnese, Pier Luigi (Paul III’s natural son) see Nepi and Castro, Duke of
Fattore, Il (Gianfrancesco Penni), 27, 32, 39, 47–8
Faustina (Bolognese prostitute), 45
Faustina, Empress (of Marcus Aurelius), 33
Faustina (Paulino’s sister), 33
Federigi, Cesare di Niccolò di Mariani, 373
Ferrando da Montepulciano, Giovanni, xiin
Ferrara, 134–6, 244–50
Ferrara, Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of, 44, 245
Ferrara, Ercole II d’Este, Duke of, 134–6, 182, 245–8, 250, 386
Ferrara, Ippolito, Cardinal of see Este, Ippolito d’
Fiaschino (Duke of Ferrara’s chamberlain), 247–8, 250
Fiesole, 2–3, 335
Fiore of Castel del Rio (BC’s housekeeper), 348, 350
Fiorino (Caesar’s officer), 2–3
Firenzuola, Giovanni de’ Giorgio, 20–2
Florence: government, viii; BC settles in after leaving France, xii, 312–18, 328; founding, 2; BC returns to from Rome, 22–3, 133; ban on BC lifted, 69; BC returns to (1527), 69; plague in, 70, 72–3; Clement VII declares war on, 74–5; BC returns to after illness, 154; BC witnesses light over, 159–60; war with Siena (1552), 361–2
Foiano, Fra Benedetto Tiezzi da, 218–19
Fontainebleau: BC works at, xv; Buonaccorsi accompanies BC to, 179; BC arrives at, 251; BC designs fountain and doorway for, 268–72, 285–6, 292–3, 297–8, 301–3, 305
Fontana, Domenico, 121–2
Foppa, Cristoforo see Caradosso
Forli, Bishop of see Michelozzi, Bernardo di Michelozzo
France: struggle for control of Italy, viii, 59; BC first journeys to (1537), 171–80; BC returns to work in (1539–40), 239, 250–1; BC acquires citizenship, 267; BC finally leaves (1545), 308–12; see also Francis I, King; Fontainebleau; Paris
Francesco (son of Matteo the blacksmith), 336, 341
Francesco (Spanish goldsmith), 168–71
Francesco da Norcia see Fusconi, Francesco
Francis I, King of France: rule, viii;
BC makes salt-cellar for, ix, xv, 260–2, 264, 268, 291–2, 303–4; BC serves, 252–9, 267, 275–6, 296, 307, 314; war with Emperor Charles V, 59, 269, 294, 301; Alamanni gives BC medal to, 79; Clement VII has mounted unicorn’s horn made for, 105; and BC’s arrival in Paris, 178–9; invites BC to work for, 183–4, 189, 228, 239, 246; learns of BC’s arrest by Paul III, 189, 194; receives BC at Fontainebleau, 251; commissions silver statues from BC, 255–6, 258–9, 264, 268, 276, 303–4; offers property (le Petit Nesle) to BC, 256–7; visits BC at work, 259–60, 268, 293–5; BC makes vase for, 264, 268; BC designs Fontainebleau fountain and doorway for, 268–72, 297–8, 301–3, 305; requests BC to make dies and coins, 284, 287; transfers fountain design to il Bologna, 285–6; orders Ippolito d’Este to pay BC, 293–5; offers abbey to BC, 295–6; transfers BC’s tennis courts to perfumier, 296–7; praises BC’s Jupiter, 299–300; Mme d’Étampes’s prejudices against BC, 302–3; rebuke to BC, 303–6; BC requests leave from, 305–8; ends war with Emperor, 307; war with English, 307; BC leaves, 308–12, 320, 322–3; BC writes to from Florence, 323
Franzesi, Mattio, 148–9, 151
Fusconi, Francesco (da Norcia), 148, 150–4
Gaddi, Agnolo, 114–15
Gaddi, Giovanni di Taddeo, Dean of the Apostolic Chamber: and BC’s relations with del Moro, 84–5; looks after BC’s jewels, 97; BC seeks refuge with after fight with Benedetto, 119–20; and BC’s return to Rome, 144, 146; covets BC’s possessions, 148; believes BC dying, 149, 151
Gaddi, Cardinal Niccolò, Bishop of Ferrara, 63, 184
Gaio see Marliano, Giovanni Pietro
Galeotti, Pietro Paolo (Pagolo): helps BC with dies for Duke Alessandro, 141, 144, 157; works with BC, 236; accompanies BC to France, 239, 247, 250, 254–6; wounded in Siena fracas, 242–4; and BC’s dispute with Marmaignes, 258; and BC’s French lawsuit, 279; in France with BC, 282; BC leaves on departure from Paris, 308
Galluzzi, Bernardo, 229
Gambetta (prostitute), 320, 326–7
Ganymede (antique statue): BC restores, xv, 338, 342, 344
Ganymede (BC; bas relief), 268
Gattinara (Iscatinaro), Giovan Bartolomeo, 188
Giamberti, Antonio di Sandro (Marcone the goldsmith), 10, 17, 22
Giambologna (Giovanni the Fleming), 388
Gianfrancesco (fifer), 62
Gianfrancesco (Penni) see Fattore, Il Gianiacomo (fifer), 33–4
Gianna (’Scorzone’; BC’s model), 293
Giannotti, Giannotto, 20–1
Giliolo, Girolamo, 245, 247
Ginori, Carlo di Lionardo, 121
Ginori, Federigo, 73–4, 78
Giorgio da Cortona see Cortona, Giorgio da
Giotto, 278
Giovanni (Bishop of Gurck’s nephew), 54–5
Giovanni (called Pedignoni; former chemist), 198, 225, 227–8
Giovenale de’ Manetti, Latino, 130, 162, 167
Girolamo (Piero the fifer’s brother), 12
Giuliano (Florentine gunner), 61
Gonzaga, Cardinal Ercole, Bishop of Mantua, 71–2
Gonzaga, Federico II see Mantua, Marquis of
Gonzaga, Ippolito, 308, 312
Gorini, Lattanzio, 316–19, 334–5, 361
Goro, Michele, 1
Governolo, 72
Granacci, Stefano (BC’s maternal grandfather), 2, 5
‘Grassuccio’ see Varchi, Giovan Battista
Graziadio (Bologna Jew), 12
Greco, Giovanni, 146
Greyhound (BC; statue), xv
Grolier, Jean, 296–7
grotesques, 52
Guadagni, Felice: BC puns on name, 158; as BC’s partner, 112, 118, 156; and Benedetto, 118; and BC’s return to Rome, 144; nurses BC during illness, 148–54; BC bequeaths money to, 151; on shooting expeditions with BC, 158–9; and BC’s departure for France, 171; and BC’s return from France, 182–3; and BC’s imprisonment in Castel Sant’Angelo, 193
Guadagni, Tommaso, 279
Guasconti, Gherardo, 23–5
Guasconti, Michele, 23
Guasconti, Salvadore, 23
Guasto see Vasto
Guidi, Jacopo (later Bishop of Penna), 374
Guido, Guidi: BC’s friendship with, 274; medical publications, 275; at baptism of BC’s child, 293; and BC’s departure from Paris, 309; writes to BC in Florence, 319; and Anterigoli, 389
Gurck (Gurgensis), Bishop of see Balbo, Girolamo
Habsburg, House of, viii
Henri II d’Albert, King of Navarre, 260–1, 401
Henri, Dauphin of France (later King Henri II), 260, 275, 299
Hercules (BC; medal), 73
Iacobacci, Cardinal Domenico di Cristofano, 45
Indevedro, 180
Iscatinaro see Gattinara
Jacomo (Perugian doctor), 203
Jacopo, Giovanbattista di see Rosso, il
Jove (statue) see Jupiter
Julius II, Pope, 9, 18
Julius III, Pope (Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte Sansovino), 352, 354
Juno (BC; model), 256, 268
Jupiter (BC; model and statue), 256, 258, 299–301, 268, 366
Juvinale, Latino see Giovenale de’ Manetti, Latino
Lamentone (courier), 134–7
Landi, Antonio di Vittorio, 323–5, 331–2
Landi, Giovanni, 26
Landi, Piero, 26, 73, 75–6, 155
Lapaccini, Raffaello, 22
Lascaris, Giovanni, 84
Lastricati, Alessandro, 349
Leda and the Swan (BC; bas relief), 268
Leo X, Pope (formerly Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici), 8–9
Leonardo da Vinci see Vinci, Leonardo da Leoni, Lione, 226–7
Librodori, Annibale, 24–5
Librodori, Librodoro, 24
Lillio, Bernardino see Bernardino (Lillio, of Todi)
Lippi, Filippino, 19
Lippi, Giovanni Francesco, 19, 22
Lodovico da Fano, 84, 146, 149
Longinus, 71
Lorenzo (trumpeter), 33
Loreto, 182
Lorraine, Cardinal Jean de, 259–61, 273
Louis XII, King of France, viii
Lucagnolo da Jesi, 27–32, 35, 40
Luigi (Ugolino’s Paduan clerk), 192–3
Lyons, 178, 250–1, 309–11
Macaroni, Paulo, 279
Macdonnell, Anne, xvi Macherone, Ceseri, 96–7
Maçon, Antoine le (Antonio Massone), 267
Maffio di Giovanni, 88
Magalotti family, 137–8
Magalotti, Gregorio, 108–11
Mannellini, Bernardino, 321, 327, 347–8
Mannerism, xv–xvi
Mantua, 70–2
Mantua, Federico II Gonzaga, Marquis (later Duke) of, 51, 71
Marcone the goldsmith see Giamberti, Antonio di Sandro
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Tuscany (later Farnese), 141, 202
Margolla see San Gallo, Francesco da
Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, 260, 275, 299, 307
Mari, Ascanio de’: in BC’s service, 168–71; accompanies BC to France, 171–2, 175–6, 239, 241, 247, 250, 254–6, 279–80, 282; quartan fever, 179–80; and BC’s detention in Castel Sant’Angelo, 190, 194; quarrels with BC, 194; attacks two assailants, 195; BC visits in Tagliacozzo, 236; in Siena fracas, 241–3; and BC’s dispute with Marmaignes, 258; and BC’s Jupiter, 299; hides lover in statue, 300–1; BC leaves on departure from Paris, 308–9
Marliano, Giovanni Pietro (Gaio), 165–6
Marmaignes, Jean Lallement, Seigneur de, 257–8, 304
Marretti, Girolamo, 73
Mars (BC; statue), 258, 300–1
Martini, Luca, 156
Martino, Piero di, 333
Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni), 18
Massone, Antonio see Maçon, Antoine le
Maurizio da Milano, 134
Medici, Alessandro de’, Duke of Tuscany: murdered, vii, 142, 160; BC makes medals and coins for, xv, 140–3, 157–8, 328; driven from F
lorence, 73; BC’s brother works for, 85, 88; BC calls on after killing brother’s murderer, 91; gives dog to BC, 92; BC calls on in Florence, 133; sends money to BC, 134, 140; and BC’s departure for Rome, 143–4; and BC’s return to Florence after illness, 155–7; Vasari disparages BC to, 155; as supposed son of Clement VII, 158
Medici, Cosimo de’, Grand Duke of Tuscany: rule, 321, 344; BC’s Perseus statue for, xv, 314–15, 317, 319–20, 322, 328–30, 333–5, 337, 343–6, 351–2, 360, 363–4, 366–71, 374–9, 397; parentage, 10; as Duke of Florence, 134; promises money to BC, 134; succeeds Alessandro as Duke of Tuscany, 161; BC visits on return from France, 314; grants house to BC, 316–17; Baldini sells inferior diamond to, 323–4, 331–2; and BC’s trip to Venice, 328; requests silver vases from BC, 333–4; BC restores Ganymede sculpture for, 338, 342, 344; questions BC’s bronze-casting ability, 344–5; attempts to persuade Michelangelo to work in Florence, 353–6; coolness to BC in Castello, 355; and wife’s pearls, 358–61; and war with Siena, 361–2; helps restore antiquities from Arezzo, 364; grants BC leave for week’s pilgrimage, 372; BC warns of danger of attack on Poppi, 373–4; dispute with BC over price of Perseus, 374–6, 378–80; illness, 377; commissions bronzes from BC for Santa Maria del Fiore, 380–2; and BC’s model of Neptune, 385–6, 395; enters Siena, 394; BC visits in Livorno, 396; BC agrees to continue in service, 397, 401; praises BC’s Crucifix, 399
Medici, Eleonora de Toledo de’, Duchess of Tuscany: BC meets on return from France, 314–15; Pogginis make gold vessel for, 321; requests work from BC, 322; BC sets diamond for, 333; BC makes silver vases for, 334; BC makes diamond ring for, 336–7; and BC’s Perseus, 352; disfavours BC over opinion on pearls, 357–61; antipathy to BC, 364–5, 367; bars BC’s access to Duke, 364; admires BC’s small bronze figures, 366–7; offers to intercede for BC with Duke Cosimo over Perseus, 375–7, 380; promises marble to Bandinelli, 382–4; and BC’s proposed marble crucifixion, 385; and Bandinelli’s Pietà, 387; transfers marble to Ammanati, 387–8, 393; praises BC’s Crucifix, 399; admires BC’s Neptune model, 400
Medici, Ferdinando (or Arnando) de’ (Duke Cosimo’s son), 366
Medici, Prince Francesco de’ (later Grand Duke of Tuscany; Duke Cosimo’s eldest son), 366, 382, 394, 401
Medici, Don Garzia (Duke Cosimo’s son), 365–6
Medici, Cardinal Giovanni de’ see Leo X, Pope
Medici, Cardinal Giovanni de’ (Duke Cosimo’s son), 366; death, 401–2
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