Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini a Florentine Artist

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CH. I-T HIS AVERSION FOK MUSIC. 7 his hand he sang and played near the fire, the weather being exceedingly cold. Looking into the fire, he saw a little animal resembling a lizard, which lived and enjoyed itself in the hottest flames. Instantly perceiving what it was, he called for my sister, and after he had shown us the creature, he gave me a box on the ear: I fell a-crying, while he, soothing me with his caressess, said, " My dear child, I don't give you that blow for any fault you have committed, but that you may remember that the little lizard which you see in the fire is a salamander ; a creature which no one that I have heard of ever beheld before." So saying, he embraced me, and gave me some money. My father began to teach me to play upon the flute, and to sing by note; and though I was very young,