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Excerpt from Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist: Containing a Variety of Information Respecting the Arts, and the History of the Sixteenth Century As a very curious piece of autobiography, this work undoubtedly possesses the most striking claims to attention. The Italian literati, particularly Parini and Tiraboschi, have carried their admiration of it to the very highest pitch, describing it as the most entertaining and delightful work in the whole compass of Italian literature; an opinion corroborated by that of Horace Walpole, who regarded it as "more amusing than any novel." The distinguished eminence of Benvenuto Cellini in the times of the Old Masters (an age peculiarly fertile in genius, and to which, next to Grecian antiquity, we owe all the most noble monuments of the fine arts); his intimacy with Michael Angelo, Titian, and all the great Italian sculptors and painters of the age; and his intercourse with Francis I., Charles V., Popes Clement VII. and Paul III., the Dukes Alessandro and Cosmo of Florence, and many princes, statesmen, commanders, and dignified ecclesiastics of that turbulent age; afforded him opportunities of making the most interesting observations; and perhaps no man was ever more capable of availing him self of such advantages. Of those great and prominent characters, who then disposed of the destinies of mankind, and whom the historic page presents in all the formality and dignity of state ceremony, Cellini gives us, at every turn, a transient but distinct view a - glimpse - which displays them in their private domestic moments, when they little thought they were sitting for their portraits to one, whose pen was no less effectively descriptive, than his pencil was strikingly imitative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku The arts The arts: general issues

• Pełny tytuł: Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist
• Podtytuł: Containing a Variety of Information Respecting the Arts, and the History of the Sixteenth Century (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: Benvenuto Cellini
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 538
• EAN: 9781331936534
• ISBN: 9781331936534
• ID: 09800300
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 713 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 28 mm
• Data wydania: 21. July 2015

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