Benvenuto Cellini (Dictionary of World Biography: The Renaissance)
Early Life
Benvenuto Cellini was born in Florence at the beginning of the Cinquecento. He was the son of Giovanni Cellini, an architect and engineer, who was also a passionate amateur musician, and of Elisabetta Granacci, the daughter of a neighbor. Cellini describes his parents’ marriage as a love match: Elisabetta married without a dowry. Benvenuto was born to them after some twenty years of marriage, during which time they had one daughter. Cellini’s father dearly wished him to become a musician, a flutist, while Benvenuto himself wished to study art. This struggle, a...
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