Dec 23, 2009
At the age of fifty-eight, Benvenuto Cellini began to set down his memoirs. After relating a fictional version of the founding of Florence by his ancestors, he began the story of his life. Benvenuto was destined by his father to be a musician, and as a boy he was taught to play the flute and sing. His father’s lessons in music failed to interest him, however, and at the age of fifteen Cellini apprenticed himself to a goldsmith. Cellini said of himself that he had a natural bent for the work and in a few months he had surpassed men long in the trade. As an...
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