Benvenuto Cellini (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The son of Giovanni Cellini, a Florentine musician and maker of musical instruments, Benvenuto Cellini (chayl-LEE-nee) was named Benvenuto (which literally means “welcome”) because he was the first son born to his parents, who had been married eighteen years. At the age of fifteen, he was apprenticed to a Florentine goldsmith, Marcone, although his father long clung to the hope of making the boy a musician; in fact, largely in deference to his father’s wishes, Cellini did become a skillful flutist but resented the interference of “that accursed music” with his own preference...
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