Autobiography, A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published - Softcover

Benvenuto Cellini

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371932564 ISBN 13: 9780371932568

Publisher: HardPress

Synopsis

Autobiography, A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published by Benvenuto Cellini is a vivid memoir of the Florentine artist’s life. The work chronicles Cellini’s beginnings in Florence, where he showed an early talent for drawing and was steered toward goldsmithing and music. It follows his wanderings across Italy, his training under masters and patrons of the Medici court, and his dazzling career crafting jewels, medals, vases, and sculptures for popes and princes. The narrative is punctuated by spectacular episodes—duels, exiles, imprisonment, and a dramatic escape from the Castle of St. Angelo—interwoven with intimate portraits of artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, and others who shaped the Renaissance art world. Written in a candid, sometimes audacious voice, the autobiography blends artistic achievement, personal temperament, and the social history of its era, offering a compelling self-portrait of a genius driven by invention, romance, and survival. This edition is a 1828 reprint of the Nugent translation of Cellini’s own work.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371932564
• ISBN 13: 9780371932568
• Binding: Paperback