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Benvenuto Cellini

  

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Benvenuto Cellini : Autobiography

'I am reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

  

Benvenuto Cellini : The life of Benvenuto Cellini

'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. as we travelled.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh      Print: Book

  

Benvenuto Cellini : Eine Geschichte des XVI Jahrhunderts

'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's Memoirs.' [records another reading from this text, with Chretien-Hermann Gambs, in journal entry for 8 January 1826].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Benvenuto Cellini : Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The Times' came to him regularly, and he had a small shelf of books which he read over and over, admitting a newcomer now and then, after much deliberation. The whole of George Borrow and of Charles Darwin, Hodson of Hodson's Horse, Buckle's 'History of Civilization', White's 'Selborne', Benvenuto Cellini, and Sismondi's Italian Republics are what I remember.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Stark      Print: Book

  

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