The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Audiobook

" Oh Cellini you cad! Psh this is just hilarious. What better way to expose your foibles than an autobiography. "

" wonderful book, a slice of history from a personal point of view. Mine was published by Phaidon, and Translated by John Addington Symonds with introduction and notes by John Pope-Hennessy. Good description of casting bronze and the culture of patronage. "

" The Popes come across as selfish and greedy. Cellini's entire society sounds Martian compared to today. The man himself is vain and hot-tempered, but he was an artist amongst artists. "

" This is a firsthand account of life in high renaissance Italy, albeit fattened with hyperbolic bravado. "

" It's always fascinating to read the words of long dead ancients, but unfortunately hyperbole and braggadocio seems to have been a Cellini hobby, which destroys any sense of history coming to life. "

" I think this may be the best autobiography ever, or at least up there in the top few. To see how the church lorded over everyone and how power and religion worked together to keep regular people down is worth the read. It's a lesson that keeps needing to be learned. "

" Very entertaining, but, man, was this guy a jerk. "

" Could definitely benefit from some chapter breaks. I'll admit I probably would have quit reading it in the middle if I didn't have to write a paper on it. I'm glad I did read it though, Cellini is a self-involved asshole and it is very entertaining to make fun of him. "

" If you want people to be reading your autobiography almost more than five hundred years later, write as entertaining a book as this one. A treasure. "