The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini- Benvenuto

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• Format Hardback | 504 pages
• Dimensions 135 x 211 x 25mm | 539g
• Publication date 06 Apr 2010
• Publisher Random House USA Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, India
• Language English
• ISBN10 030759274X
• ISBN13 9780307592743
• Bestsellers rank 1,215,307

OPIS

Here is the most important autobiography from Renaissance Italy and one of the most spirited and colorful from any time or place, in a translation widely recognized as the most faithful to the energy and spirit of the original.

Benvenuto Cellini was both a beloved artist in sixteenth-century Florence and a passionate and temperamental man of action who was capable of brawling, theft, and murder. He counted popes, cardinals, kings, and dukes among his patrons and was the adoring friend of--as he described them--the "divine" Michelangelo and the "marvelous" Titian, but was as well known for his violent feuds. At age twenty-seven he helped defend the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, and his account of his imprisonment there (under a mad castellan who thought he was a bat), his escape, recapture, and confinement in "a cell of tarantulas and venomous worms" is an adventure equal to any other in fact or fiction. But it is only one in a long life lived on a grand scale.

Cellini's autobiography is not merely the record of an extraordinary life but also a dramatic and evocative

account of daily life in Renaissance Italy, from its lowest taverns to its highest royal courts.

Stan: Bardzo dobry

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