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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 01/06/2013

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A master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer, Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his own flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists. From Florence and Pisa to Siena and Rome, Cellini portrays a tumultuous period--the age of Galileo, Michelangelo, and de Medicis--with an artist's eye for detail and a curmudgeon's propensity for criticism. Cellini, according to himself, seems to have lived a very full life, and his account of his exploits, though grandiloquent and somewhat suspect, are always entertaining. Historians have considered this work as a prime example of the emergence of modern individualism during the Renaissance.
ISBN:
9781470888329
9781470888329
Category:
Autobiography: historical
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
01-06-2013
Publisher:
Blackstone Audiobooks
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
147x132x38mm
Weight:
0.3kg

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