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Excerpt from The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: With Introduction and Note My ancestors dwelt in Val d' Ambra, where they owned large estatq, and lived like little lords, in retirement, however, on account of the then contending factions. They were all men devoted to arms and of notable bravery. In that time one of their sons, the younger, who was called Cristofano, roused a great feud with certain of their friends and neighbours. Now the heads of the families on both sides took part in it, and the fire kindled seemed to them so threatening that their houses were like to perish utterly; the elders upon this consideration, in concert with my own ancestors, removed Cristo fano; and the other youth with whom the quarrel began was also sent away. They sent their young man to Siena. Our folk sent Crimofano to Florence; and thae they bought for him a little house in Via Chiara, close to the convent of S. Orsola, and they also pur. 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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• Full title: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Subtitle: With Introduction and Note (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Benvenuto Cellini
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402
• EAN: 9781334085413
• ISBN: 1334085412
• ID: 15264659
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 537 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. October 2016

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