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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Hardcover)
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Hardcover)
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
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Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest
sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the
worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the
'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio, the 'marvellous'
Titian (the adjectives are Cellini's ). He loathed the sculptor
Torregiano because he had broken Michelangelo's nose.His
autobiography gives a quite extraordinarily vivid account of daily
life in Renaissance Florence and Rome, its studios, its taverns,
its violence, his loves, the kings, cardinals and popes who
commission his works. At 27 he helps direct the defence of the
castello San Angelo; his account of his imprisonment there under a
mad castellan (who thought he was a bat), his escape by an
improvised rope, his recapture, his confinement in 'a cell of
tarantulas and venomous worms' is a chapter of adventure equal to
any in fact or fiction. Later he describes burning all his
furniture to achieve sufficient heat to cast of one of his most
famous works, Perseus and the Head of Medusa. Cellini's Life was
translated by Goethe into German. The Everyman translation by Anne
Macdonell (1903) is widely recognised as the most faithful to the
energy and spirit of the original.
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