Medici, Giovanni de’ (Giovannino dalle Bande Nere), 10, 14, 59, 85
Medici, Cardinal Giulio de’ see Clement VII, Pope
Medici, Cardinal Ippolito de’: driven from Florence, 73; and BC’s fight with Benedetto, 119; invites BC back to Rome, 122, 124–5; and BC’s killing of Pompeo, 129–30; orders illuminated Book of Offices, 162
Medici, Lorenzino de’, 142–4, 158, 160
Medici, Lorenzo de’, 7, 327
Medici, Ottaviano de’, 142, 155, 157, 388
Medici, Pallone de’, 60
Medici, Piero de’, 7–8; tomb, 120
Medusa (bronze head), 320, 325–6, 329, 336, 343–6, 351
Melfi see Amalfi
Miccieri, ‘Gatta’, 279
Miccieri, Paolo, 279–81, 287–9, 292
Michelagnolo di Bernardino di Michele, 47–51, 55
Michelangelo Buonarroti: moves to Venice, 18; Torrigiano injures, 18; admires topaz head, 43; hears Pulci sing, 54; visits BC in Florence, 73; recommends BC to Ginori, 74; statues in Florence, 315, 330; praised with sonnets, 339; Cosimo de’ Medici invites to Florence, 353–4, 356; praises BC’s bust of Altoviti, 353–4; BC visits in Rome, 354–5; David statue, 370; and BC’s Perseus, 378; marble transferred to Bandinelli, 383–4; BC praises, 385
Michele (jeweller), 79–80
Michelozzi, Bernardo di Michelozzo, Bishop of Forli, 129
Mirandola, Count Galeotto della, 308, 311
Mirandola, Pico della see Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
Modena, 245
Monaldo, Alessandro, 215, 218
Monte Aguto, Niccolò da, 134, 155, 157–8
Monte Cassino: Piero de’ Medici’s tomb in, 120, 123
Monte Ruosi, 240
Montevarchi, Francesco Catani da, 156, 394
Montorsoli see Servi, Fra Giovanni Agnolo de’
Morani, Aurelio see Ascolano, Aurelio
Morluc, Jean de, 189, 194, 228
Moro, Raffaello del: BC works with in Rome, 76, 83; daughter, 83–5; praises RK’s setting of jewel for Paul III, 165
Moschino (Francesco di Simone Mosca), 388
Naples, 120–3
Narcissus (BC; statue), 342–3
Nardi, Jacopo, 134–5
Nardini, Michele di Francesco, 195
Narducci, Benvegnato, 57–8
Nassaro (Nazaro), Mattio del, 280, 288
Navarre, King of see Henri II d’Albert
Nazaro see Nassaro
Nepi and Castro, Jerolima, Duchess of, 212–13
Nepi and Castro, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of (later Duke of Parma and Piacenza): threatens BC, 131–2, 145; orders BC’s arrest, 133; and BC’s arrest by Paul III, 184–5, 189; testifies to BC’s audacity, 206–8; and Paul III’s request for death of BC, 219; and BC’s confinement, 225; and BC’s release, 229; BC foresees fate of, 230; BC meets on return from France, 312–13
Neptune (BC; statue), 382–6, 388–90, 393–5, 399–401
Nero, Francesco del, 94–5
Nesle, le Petit (château): BC occupies, 256–8, 274–5; BC made lord of castle, 267–8; BC evicts German workman from, 275, 277; craftsmen in, 275; supposed haunting, 301
Neufville, Nicolas de (’Villurois’), 257–8, 304
Niccolò d’Asti (Mantua goldsmith), 71
Nobili, Antonio de’, 376–7
Norcia, Francesco da see Fusconi, Francesco
Norcia, Umbria, 116
Nugent, Thomas, xvi
Nymph (BC; Fontainebleau statue), xv
Orange, Philibert de Chalons, Prince of, 68
Orbec, Vicomte d’, 258, 262
Orsino, Cardinal Franciotto, 68–9
Orsino, Gerolamo, 183
Orsino, Paolo di Giordano, lord of Bracciano, 183
Paccalli, Giuliano, 354
Padua, 172–3
Pagno, Zanobi di, 329
Pagolo see Galeotti, Pietro Paolo Pallavicino, Fr, 191–3
Palombara, 120
Pantasilea (courtesan), 47, 50, 53–9
Parigi, Antonio (BC’s adopted son), xiii
Parigi, Domenico, xiii
Parigi, Dorotea (BC’s model), xiii
Parigi, Piera di Salvadore (BC’s wife), xiii
Paris: BC in, 178, 255–6; fortified against Charles V, 301–2; see also Fontainebleau; France
Parma and Piacenza, Duke of see Nepi and Castro, Duke of
Particino, Antonio, 361
Pascucci, Girolamo (BC’s Perugian assistant), 171, 183–4
Pasqualino d’Ancona, 361
Paul III, Pope (earlier Cardinal Alessandro Farnese): BC serves, 130; near-injury in siege of Rome, 64–5; BC makes dies and coins for, 130–1; elected Pope, 130; grants BC safe conduct after murder of Pompeo, 130, 142–3; BC makes gold plate for, 147; BC visits on return to Rome, 147; pardons BC, 147; exchanges gifts with Emperor Charles V, 161–4; BC sets diamond in ring for, 164, 166–7; Giovenale arouses hostility towards BC in, 167–8; BC leaves service, 171; orders BC’s arrest and imprisonment for theft of jewels, 184–5, 187, 189–90, 194; and Acanio’s attack on goldsmiths, 195; and BC’s escape from Castel Sant’Angelo, 203–4, 206–8; imprisonment and escape, 204–5; confines BC (1539), 209–12, 228; agrees to free BC, 213; orders BC’s death, 219–20; castellan seeks BC’s release from, 223–4; releases BC from prison, 228–9; settles dispute with Ercole II d’Este, 245
Paulino (BC’s apprentice), 30, 35, 37, 41, 45
Pavia, Bishop of see Rossi, Giovan Girolamo de’
Pecci, Pierantonio, 124
Pedignone see Giovanni (called Pedignone)
Penni, Gianfrancesco see Fattore, il
Penni, Giulio Romano see Romano, Giulio
Perseus (BC; statue), 314–15, 317, 319–20, 322, 328–30, 333–5, 337, 343–6, 351–2, 360, 363–4, 366–71, 374–9, 397
Petrucci, Porzia, xi, 28–32, 38
Philip II, King of Naples, then of Spain, 337
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 268
Pier Luigi see Nepi and Castro, Duke of
Piero (Pierino; fife-player), 12–14
Pietro Paolo of Monterotondo see Galeotti, Pietro Paolo
Pilli, Raffaello de’, 343, 394
Piloto, Giovanni di Baldassare, 64, 128
Pisa, 15–16, 401–2
Pitigliano, Count of, 268
plague: in Rome, 41, 43–7; BC contracts, 45–6; in Florence, 70, 72–3
Plon, Eugène, xvi
Poggini, Domenico and Gian Paolo (brothers), 321, 324, 330, 332–3
Polverino, Jacopo, 377
Pompeo (jeweller) see Capitaneis, Pompeo de’
Pontormo, Jacopo da, 369
Pope-Hennessy, Sir John, xvi
Prato Magno, 373
Prato, Tommaso da see Cortese, Tommaso
Pretino da Lucca, 141
Primaticcio, Francesco (’Il Bologna’), 276–7, 284–9, 292, 298, 307
Pucci, Pandolfo, 203
Pucci, Roberto (later Cardinal), 100, 203
Pulci, Luigi, xi, 53–9
Quistello, Alfonso, 377, 395
Raffaello, Niccolò di (’Tribolo’), 133–40
Raphael: BC copies Jupiter, 29; Rosso belittles, 178
Rastelli, Giacomo, 84
Ravenna, Cardinal of see Accolti, Benedetto
Recalcati, Ambrogio, 130, 147
Reformation, viii
Ricci, Federigo de’, 395, 397
Ricciarelli, Daniele (of Volterra), 401
Riccio, Pier Francesco, 316–19, 326–7, 351–2, 355–6
Ridolfi, Cardinal Niccolò, 38
Rienzo da Ceri see Ceri, Lorenzo da
Rigogli, Giovanni, 46, 72
Romano, Giulio (Penni), 47–51, 71
Rome: BC runs away to work in, 19–20, 22; BC escapes to, 27; plague in, 41, 43–7; siege and sack of (1527), 59–69, 186; BC returns to, 76, 123–4, 144, 157; flood, 97; BC flees from, 120; BC returns to from France, 182–3
Romolo (Roman innkeeper), 256
Romolo, Vincenzi
o, 113–15
Roscoe, Thomas, xvi
Rosegli, Mariano, 391
Rossi, Giovan Girolamo de’, Bishop of Pavia: imprisoned in Castel Sant’Angelo, 227; in Paris, 274; and BC’s departure from Paris, 308–9
Rossi, Paolo L., x & n, xiin, xiii, xix Rosso, il (Giovanbattista di Jacopo): friendship with BC, 39; BC visits, 46; in Paris, 178–9; and il Bologna, 276; paintings, 298
Rotelli, Lautizio, 40, 237
Ruberta (BC’s servant), 290
Rucellai, Luigi, 129
Saint Paul, François de Bourbon, Comte de, 306
Salamanca, Francesco di Cabrera, Bishop of, 27, 32–3, 35–8
Salimbene, Francesco, 19–20, 22
Saliti, Bernardo, 247
salt-cellars: made for Francis I, ix, 260–2, 264, 291–2, 303–4; model for Cardinal d’Este, 237–8, 261
Salviati, Alamanno, 376
Salviati, Cardinal Giovanni: gives work to BC, 38; bullies BC over papal chalice, 100–2; recommends Tobbia to Clement VII, 104–5; in Ferrara, 250
Salviati, Jacopo, 9, 59, 64–5, 76–8
Salviati, Piero d’Alamanno d’Averardo, 381
Sandrino (Bronzino’s apprentice), 369
San Francesco della Vernia, 372–3
Sanga, Giambattista, 85
San Gallo, Antonio da, the Younger (Antonio di Bartolomeo Cordinai), 178–9
San Gallo, Francesco da (known as Margolla), 361
San Marino, Antonio da, 22
Sansovino, Jacopo del (or Tatti), 133, 137–8, 327
Santa Croce, Antonio, 61–2, 68
Santa Fiore, Cardinal of see Sforza, Ascanio
Santa Maria, Bagno di see Baths of Santa Maria
Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, 380
Santi (Santo di Cola), 27
Santini, Giovanni Battista, 392
Santiquattro, Antonio Pucci, Cardinal, 193
Sardella, Giovanni, 393
Savello, Giovanbatista, 120
Savonarola, Girolamo, viii, 24, 191
Sbarri, Manno, 155
Sbietta see Anterigoli, Pier Maria d’
Scheggia, Raffaello, 397–9
Sciorina, Jacopo dello see Barca, Jacopino della
Scorzone see Gianna
Sebastiano (Luciani) del Piombo (Bastiano Veneziano), 84, 97, 99
Serristori, near Monte Lupo, 346
Serristori, Averardo, 352, 354, 395
Servi, Fra Giovanni Agnolo de’ (Montorsoli), 371
Sestile (?Sestino), 372
Settignano, Antonio di Giovanni da (Solosmeo), 120, 123
Sforza, Signor (son of Bosio, Count of Santa Fiore), 168
Sforza, Ascanio, Cardinal of Santa Fiore, 206–8, 384
Sforzani, Cherubino, 240, 242–4
Sguazzella (or Chiazzella), Andrea, 179
Siena: BC visits, 11, 19–20, 27, 240; BC kills postmaster in, 241–2; BC flees, 243; war with Florence (1552), 361; Duke Cosimo enters, 394
Soderini, Francesco, 157–8, 160
Soderini, Piero, 8
Sogliani, Giovanbatista, 23
Solosmeo, Antonio see Settignano, Antonio di Giovanni da
Spain: struggle for control of Italy, viii
Staggia, 243–4
Strozzi, Frate Alesso, 26–7
Strozzi, Cattivanza Bernardo, 86
Strozzi, Filippo: and Cavalierino, 67; Busbacca carries for, 174
Strozzi, Leone, Prior of Capua, 289, 328
Strozzi, Piero, Marshal of France: takes out French naturalization, 267; BC makes objects for, 268; in war against English, 307; in assault on Florence, 363; and undefended pass to Poppi, 373
Stufa, Pandolfo di Luigi della, 379
Stufa, Prinzivalle della, 24
Sugherello (perfumer), 183
Symonds, John Addington, xv–xvi
Tacca, Giovan Francesco della, 207
Tacca, Giovanpietro della, 32
Tagliacozzo, 236
Targhetta, Emiliano, 165–6
Tassi, Raffaello (BC’s brother-inlaw), 313
Tasso, Battista di Marco del, 19–21, 317, 361
Tatti, Jacopo del see Sansovino, Jacopo del
Tè, near Mantua, 71
Tedaldi, Lionardo, 308, 310–11
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 327
Tobbia (Milanese goldsmith): Clement VII commissions work
from, 104–5, 112; and BC’s papal chalice, 107–8, 111; Pompeo falsely reports BC’s murder of, 119–20
Tommaso d’Antonio (il Fagiuolo), 107
Torelli, Lelio, 380
Torrigiano, Piero, 17–18
Tournon, François de, 239
Tribolo see Raffaello, Niccolò di
Trotti, Alfonso de’, 248–50
Ubertino, Antonio (Bachiacca), 325
Ubertino, Francesco (Bachiacca), 47, 55–7
Ugolino, Antonio, 225, 227–9
Ugolino, Giorgio (castellan): guards BC in Castel Sant’Angelo, 190–8; periodic delusions, 195–6, 199, 203; and BC’s escape, 204; and BC’s later confinement, 213–14, 217; Paul III requests killing of BC, 219; declines to kill BC, 220; attempts to secure BC’s release, 223–5; and BC’s spiritual experiences, 223; BC writes sonnet to, 224; death, 225, 227
Ugolino, Pier, 225
Urbino (Francesco di Bernardino d’Amadore), 354–6
Urbino, Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of, 63
Urbino, Gian di, 67
Urbino, Guidobaldo della Rovere, Duke of, 374
Valenti, Benedetto (da Cagli; judge), 108–9, 186, 212
Vallombrosa, 372
Valois, House of, viii
Valori, Bartolomeo (Baccio), 99–100
Varchi, Benedetto: BC sends Life to, 27; sonnet on BC’s reported death, 149, 151
Varchi, Giovan Battista (’Grassuccio’), 27
Vasari, Giorgio (Giorgietto), 155–7, 388
Vasona, Girolamo Schio, Bishop of, 94, 99
Vasto (Guasto), Alfonso d’Avalos, Marchese del, 166–7
Venice, 133–4, 136–7, 327–8
Vergerio, Giovanni, 84
Verrocchio, Andrea del, 369
Vicchio, 389–91
Vicorati, Francesco da, 3
Villa (Cardinal of Ferrara’s page), 302
Villafranca, Pietro Alvarez di Toledo, Marquis of (Viceroy of Naples), 122
Villani, Giovanni, 2, 214
Villebon, Jean d’Estouteville, Seigneur de (later Chevalier de S. Michel; Francis I’s Provost), 256–7
Villurois, Monsignor di see Neufville, Nicolas de Vinci, Leonardo da, 18, 255
Viterbo, 239–40
Vitruvius, 4
Volterra, Daniele of see Ricciarelli, Daniele
Vulcan (BC; model), 256, 258
Wallenstadt, 173–4
Zürich, 177–8
* For the full and convincing demonstration of the contrived character of the Life see the revealing paper by Paolo L. Rossi, ‘Sprezzatura, patronage and fate; Benvenuto Cellini and the world of words’ in Vasari’s Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court ed. P. Jacks (Cambridge, 1998 pp. 55–69). Rossi argues that the famous manuscript of the Life in the Laurenziana in Florence is a fine copy, possibly completed ready for the printer.
*The crime of sodomy in Cellini’s time usually referred to sexual intercourse between males though it could stand for a range of sexual practices contrary to Roman Catholic teaching on sex and procreation. The modern term ‘homosexuality’ was not in use. Cellini’s lust for young men and his bisexuality are clear from several revealing passages in the Life, though understandably –penalties could be horrific –he reacted scathingly, sometimes hilariously, against the accusations of sodomy which he did report.
He was convicted for sodomy in Florence in 1523 and 1557 and unsuccessfully prosecuted for sodomy with a woman, Caterina, in France in 1543.
Before 1557 Cellini hadbeen livingwith his ragazzo, Ferrando di Giovanni da Montepulciano, for several years. He had made a will somewhat in his favour but, w
hen Ferrando deserted him in the summer of 1556, cut out any legacy to him. The charge against Cellini followed in February 1557, possibly through the efforts of members of the court to curb his excesses. For the general context of Cellini’s sexual life, see Rossi’s ‘The writer and the man. Real crimes and mitigating circumstances: il caso Cellini’ in Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy, eds Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe (Cambridge, 1994).
*See The ‘Vita’ of Benvenuto Cellini: Literary Tradition and Genre by Dino Sigismondo Cervigni (Ravenna, 1979).
* For important reassessments see in particular the Conference reports Benvenuto Cellini Artista e Scrittore (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1972).
In his assessment of Cellini’s artistic achievements, Pope-Hennessy singles out his marble Crucifix as intended to embody ‘the technical sophistication, the humanity, and the imaginative sweep of the Renaissance at its height’ and in its ‘truly Michelangelesque’ technique as ‘the supreme marble sculpture of its time’.
*Surely Michelangelo.
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