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Benvenuto Cellini

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  • It was then that somehow the idea of Benvenuto Cellini

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

  • It was then that somehow the idea of Benvenuto Cellini sitting up all night watching his Perseus in the furnace came into my head, and suddenly I asked myself: 'After all, in the sight of the Upper Powers, what is the mighty difference between a statue of Perseus and a loaf of bread, so that each be the thing that one's hand has found to do?'

    Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

  • I am called Benvenuto Cellini, son of Maestro Giovanni, son of Andrea, son of Cristofano Cellini; my mother was Madonna Elisabetta, daughter to Stefano Granacci; both parents citizens of Florence.

    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

  • I am called Benvenuto Cellini, son of Maestro Giovanni, son of Andrea, son of Cristofano Cellini; my mother was Madonna Elisabetta, daughter to Stefano Granacci; both parents citizens of Florence.

    II 1909

  • What is the wonder if a Benvenuto Cellini should be the outcome of the same society as that which formed a Cesare Borgia?

    Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

  • I am called Benvenuto Cellini, son of Maestro Giovanni, son of Andrea, son of Cristofano Cellini; my mother was Madonna Elisabetta, daughter to

    Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535

  • Friday evening's rendition of the "Benvenuto Cellini" overture only proved Jerry's point.

    Archive 2006-09-01 sfmike 2006

  • Friday evening's rendition of the "Benvenuto Cellini" overture only proved Jerry's point.

    Berlioz, Foss and Brahms sfmike 2006

  • The thinness of much of his work, the feebleness of the overture to "Benvenuto Cellini," for instance, results from his inexperience in the new tongue.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • 'Benvenuto Cellini' and 'Béatrice et Bénédict,' which were thought too advanced for the taste of their day, are now perhaps a trifle old-fashioned for our times.

    The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland 1892

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