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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

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Number of Chapters: 30

Length: 10 hours and 14 minutes

Language: English

Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great self-regard and self-assertion, sometimes running into extravagances which are impossible to credit. He even writes in a complacent way of how he contemplated his murders before carrying them out. He writes of his time in Paris:


Parts of his tale recount some extraordinary events and phenomena; such as his stories of conjuring up a legion of devils in the Colosseum, after one of his not innumerous mistresses had been spirited away from him by her mother; of the marvelous halo of light which he found surrounding his head at dawn and twilight after his Roman imprisonment, and his supernatural visions and angelic protection during that adversity; and of his being poisoned on two separate occasions.

The autobiography is a classic, and commonly regarded as one of the most colourful; it is certainly the most important autobiography from the Renaissance.

Cellini's autobiography is one of the books Tom Sawyer mentions as inspiration while freeing Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline)

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Introduction (Kristine Bekere)
Chapters 1-6 (Kristine Bekere)
Chapters 7-11 (Kristine Bekere)
Chapters 12-17 (Kristine Bekere)
Chapters 18-22 (Andrew Coleman)
Chapters 23-26 (Andrew Coleman)
Chapters 27-30 (Andrew Coleman)
Chapters 31-33 (MorganScorpion)
Chapters 34-37 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 38-41 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 42-25 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 46-51 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 52-56 (David Lazarus)
Chapters 57-61 (David Lazarus)
Chapters 62-65 (MorganScorpion)
Chapters 66-70 (Sue Anderson)
Chapters 70-75 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 76-80 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 81-84 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 85-88 (ppezz)
Chapters 89-92 (ppezz)
Chapters 93-95 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 96-99 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 100-103 (Philippa Brodie)
Chapters 104-107 (Sibella Denton)
Chapters 108-111 (Kristine Bekere)
Chapters 112-116 (Kristine Bekere)
Chapters 117-121 (Kristine Bekere)
Chapters 122-126 (Kristine Bekere)
Chapter 127 (Kristine Bekere)
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