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great Ibldier rather than of a ftatuary, his 

 admirable geilures, fonorous voice, and the 

 a6lion of his brow ftriking with amazement, 

 cd ogni giorno ragionava delle fue bravure 

 con quelle beflie di quelli Inglefi, every day 

 relating his brave treatment of thofe beafts 

 the Englifh. But as much ftruck as Cellini 

 was with this lofty behaviour to us favages, 

 he took an averfion to his nev/ mafter, on the 

 latter boafling of a blow in the face that he 

 had given to the divine Michael Angelo with 

 his fifl:, the marks of which he would carry 

 to his grave. Others fay that this event hap- 

 pened in the palace of the Cardinal de' Me- 

 dici, Torreggiano being jealous of the fupe- 

 rior honours paid to Michael Angelo, -svhofe 

 nofe was flattened by the blow. The aggrefibr 

 fled, and entered into the army, where he ob- 

 tained a captain's commiflion, but being fooa 

 difguftcd with that life, he retired to Flo- 

 rence, and from thence came to Enscland. 



To Torreggiano Vertue afcribes likewife 

 the tomb of Margaret countefs of Richmond, 

 the mother of Henry VII. and that of Dr. 

 Young mailer of the rolls, in the chapel at 

 the rolls in Chancery^lane. There is a head 

 of Henry VIII. in plaifter in a round at 

 L 3 Hampton* 



