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Benvenuto Cellini was 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.
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; 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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