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Benvenuto Cellini was not only a great goldsmith and distinguished sculptor but also a fine enough writer for Goethe to have translated his famous autobiography, The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, into ...

Noted theater director Andrei Serban, who has staged numerous operas for national and international companies, drew a tough assignment for his Metropolitan Opera debut. The task at hand was actually ...

BENVENUTO Cellini, the legendary 16th century goldsmith and sculptor, now has a movie in his memory, and Filmhouse Cinemas has announced that it will be showing his autobiography on November 28 in all ...

Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) woke one morning and noticed something odd floating over his head: a halo. It had begun appearing there, he said, while he was in a prison cell down the street from the ...

Time is short for all of us, but here are three books to consider, with one-minute reviews for each. Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography was required reading for centuries after it was published at the ...

THIS fine volume contains a commentary on the passages in Goethe's translation of Cellini's autobiography which throw light on the medicine of the Renaissance. The close relationship between the ...