The Autobiography of - Benvenuto Cellini Audiobook

Written by Benvenuto Cellini
Read by Simon Vance
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
By: Benvenuto Cellini
Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
Audiobook
Release date: 12-13-06
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary

Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was actually begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France, and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists. From Florence and Pisa to Siena and Rome, Cellini portrays a tumultuous period - the age of Galileo, Michelangelo and the de Medicis - with an artist’s eye for detail and a curmudgeon’s propensity for criticism.
Cellini, according to himself, lived a very full life, and his account of his exploits, though grandiloquent and somewhat suspect, is always entertaining. Historians have considered this work to be a prime example of the emergence of modern individualism during the Renaissance.

Translated by John Addington Symonds.

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