| The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Cellini, Benvenuto (Author), Symonds, John Addington (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1409983013 ISBN-13: 9781409983019 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $33.14 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 6" W x 9" (1.83 lbs) 574 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) was an Italian goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier and musician of the Renaissance, who also wrote a famous autobiography. Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began, writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great self-regard and self-assertion, sometimes running into extravagances which are impossible to credit. He even writes in a complacent way of how he contemplated his murders before carrying them out. Parts of his tale recount some extraordinary events and phenomena; such as his stories of conjuring up a legion of devils in the Colosseum, after one of his not innumerous mistresses had been spirited away from him by her mother; of the marvelous halo of light which he found surrounding his head at dawn and twilight after his Roman imprisonment, and his supernatural visions and angelic protection during that adversity; and of his being poisoned on two separate occasions. The autobiography has been translated into English by Thomas Roscoe, by John Addington Symonds, and by A. Macdonald. |