The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: Introduction by James Fenton by Benvenut

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, James Fenton

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Description "Anne Macdonell's translation first included in Everyman's Library, 1907"--T.p. verso.

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

Author Biography

Benvenuto Cellini was born in Florence in 1500 and died in 1571.James Fenton is a prizewinning poet, former professor of poetry at Oxford, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Details ISBN 030759274X ISBN-13 9780307592743 Title The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Author Benvenuto Cellini, James Fenton Format Hardcover Year 2010 Pages 504 Publisher Random House USA Inc GE_Item_ID:141688157; About Us

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