My Life

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Benvenuto Cellini Julia Conaway Bondanella (, Professor of French and Italian, Indiana University)

My Life

Benvenuto Cellini, Julia Conaway Bondanella (, Professor of French and Italian, Indiana University), Peter Bondanella (, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Italian, and West European Studies, Indiana University)

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Oxford University Press
12 February 2009

Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs; Autobiography: historical, political & military; Literature, Poetry & Criticism

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law.'

Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist, so great was his reputation in Renaissance Florence.

A renowned sculptor and goldsmith, whose works include the famous salt-cellar made for the King of France, and the statue of Perseus with the head of the Medusa, Cellini's life was as vivid and enthralling as his creations.

A man of action as well as an artist, he took part in the Sack of Rome in 1527; he was temperamental, passionate, and conceited, capable of committing criminal acts ranging from brawling and sodomy to theft and murder. He numbered among his patrons popes and kings and members of the Medici family, and his autobiography is a fascinating account of sixteenth-century Italy and France written with all the verve of a novel.

This new translation, which captures the freshness and vivacity of the original, is based on the latest critical edition.

It examines in detail the central event in Cellini's narrative, the casting of the statue of Perseus.

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By: Benvenuto Cellini
Translated by: Julia Conaway Bondanella ( Professor of French and Italian Indiana University), Peter Bondanella (, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Italian, and West European Studies, Indiana University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 351g
ISBN: 9780199555314
ISBN 10: 0199555311
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 12 February 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Bondanellas have between them published books on Petrarch, Guicciardini, Machiavelli, Umberto Eco, and Italian cinema and they are joint editors of the Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature.