e's mandatary came together with two great gentlemen of the Cardinal's, and when four o'clock of the night was passed, they removed me fr my prison, and brought me into the presence of the Cardinal, who received me with indescribable kindness. I was well lodged, and left to enjoy the cforts of my situation.
Messer Antonio, the old castellan's brother, and his successor in the office, insisted on extracting fr me the costs for food and other fees and perquisites claimed by sheriffs and such fry, paying no heed to his predecessor's will in my behalf. This affair cost me several scores of crowns; but I paid them, because the Cardinal told me to be well upon my guard if I wanted to preserve my life, adding that had he not extracted me that evening fr the prison, I should never have got out. Indeed, he had already been informed that the Pope greatly regretted having let me go.
THIS CAPITOLO I WRITE TO LUCA MARTIN ADDRESSING HIM IN IT AS WILL APPEAR 注释标题 Cellini's Capitolo in Praise of the Prison is clearly made up of pieces written, as escribed above, in the dungeon of S. Angelo, and of passages which he afterwards cposed to bring these pieces into a coherent whole. He has not displayed much literary skill in the redaction, and I have been at pains to preserve the roughness of the original.
WHOSO would know the power of God's dinion,
And how a man resembles that high good,
Must lie in prison, is my firm opinion:
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