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The little book contains the most complete details concerning daily expenditure for food and drink for the head of the house and his numerous gentlemen, which amounted in a year to the really not extravagant sum of four thousand scudi, or dollars, over fourteen hundred being spent on wine alone.
As Palestrina could still keep his six scudi pension, increased with the added salary of the new position, he was able to establish his family in a pretty villa on the Coelian Hill, where he could be near his work at the Lateran, but far enough removed from the turmoil of the city to obtain the quiet he desired, and where he lived in tranquillity for the next five years.
And now, my child," he continued, addressing Nanina, "you can go home, and one of the men-servants shall see you safe to your own door, in case that woman should still be lurking about the palace. Stop! you are leaving the bag of scudi behind you." "I can't take it, sir." "And why not?" "She would have taken money!" Saying those words, Nanina reddened, and looked toward the door.
She thought she saw Temistocle tremble with excitement. But still he hesitated. "Signora, my conscience," he said, in a low voice of protestation. "Come," said Madame Mayer, impatiently, "there is another there are a hundred scudi that is all I have got," she added, turning down her empty glove. Suddenly Temistocle put out his hand and grasped the bank-notes eagerly.
The Pope asked him, "What would be the cost of this?" Michael Angelo replied, "One hundred thousand scudi." "Let it be two hundred thousand," said Julius. And sending San Gallo, the architect, and Bramante to see the place, by their suggestion it came into the mind of the Pope to rebuild the church altogether.
He moved the bag of scudi while he spoke back to his own side of the table. Brigida's cheeks reddened, and she rose from her seat. "Am I to understand, sir," she said, haughtily, "that you take advantage of my position here, as a defenseless woman, to cheat me out of the reward?" "By no means, madam," rejoined the doctor.
Bignolio. "Dear, dear uncle!" exclaimed Alberto, carefully buttoning up his pocket over the funds, and kissing the letter in transports of joy. "And only yesterday he would not lend me a scudi to get my dinner. Generous man! how have I wronged him! Now, Fate, I will floor thee and Rodicaso together." Overtop's acting, throughout this difficult scene, was of a superior order.
"Al Banchiere mio." "Al Banchiere? Ma quale Banchiere sta in su le scale?" "Ma Beppo," was the grave answer. "Ho bisogna di sessanta scudi, e lui mele prestera senza difficolta." "Da vero?" said my friend. "To my banker." "To your banker? But what banker is there above the steps?" "Only Beppo. I want sixty scudi, and he can lend them to ma without difficulty." "Really?" "Of course."
Although he had agreed to remain for life at the cathedral church of Saint Agapitus, it seems that such contracts could be broken without peril. Thus, after seven years of service, he once more turned his steps toward the Eternal City. He returned to Rome as a recognized musician. In 1551 he became master of the Capella Giulia, at the modest salary of six scudi a month, something like ten dollars.
Begging, in Rome, is as much a profession as praying and shop-keeping. Happy is he who is born stroppiato, with a withered limb, or to whom Fortune sends the present of a hideous accident or malady; it is a stock to set up trade upon. St. Vitus's dance is worth its hundreds of scudi annually; epileptic fits are also a prize; and a distorted leg and hare-lip have a considerable market value.
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