The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

CELLINI BENVENUTO

Secondhand. Benvenuto Cellini was born in 1500 and died in 1571. His autobiography was penned at intervals during the years 1558 – 66. Despite its egotism and bias, it gives us a most vivid and convincing account of the sixteenth century and of the manners and morals of the time. Cellini was an Italian...