Author: Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher: London : J.C. Nimmo
ISBN:
Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338703007X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author: Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192828491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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"Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist, so great was Cellini's reputation in Renaissance Italy. 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.

Author: Girolamo Cardano
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct. Whether discussing his sex life or his diet, the plots of academic rivals or meetings with supernatural beings, or his deep sorrow when his beloved son was executed for murder, Cardano displays the same unbounded curiosity that made him a scientific pioneer. At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae, and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait—a book to set beside Montaigne's Essays and Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography.

Author: Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculptors
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Author: Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9780940322356
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Plot and counterplot lie at the heart of Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro, the three brilliant libretti that Lorenzo Da Ponte prepared for Mozart. They were also central to Da Ponte's own extraordinary life. His Memoirs record a fantastic variety of romantic, political, and professional intrigues, and tell of meetings with a host of remarkable men. In a life that took him from the canals of Venice to the streets of New York, Da Ponte was at different times priest, professional gambler, proprietor of a bordello, political agitator, court poet, impresario, grocery store owner, and the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. His Memoirs, a minor classic of Italian literature, are the picaresque and engrossing story of a man of enormous talent and unsurpassed flair who was, above all, an indefatigable survivor. "I shall speak of things . . . so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying." —Lorenzo da Ponte

Author: Muriel Spark
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association’s pompous director steals Fleur’s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.

Author: Benvenuto Cellini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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