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Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist, Written by Himself
Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini a Florentine Artist Written by Himself Author:Benvenuto Cellini General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: G. Bell Subjects: Art / Individual Artist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mill... more »ion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CH. I.] ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S FASOLTi 3 time payirg a compliment to his valiant officer, to whom he was the more attached, because he had promoted him from a very humble station, and considered his merit as in some measure a creation of his own. The other name of Fluentia, which the learned inventors and investigators of the connexion of names pretend that Florence obtained on account of the Arno's flowing through the town, cannot be admitted; because the Tiber flows through Borne, the Po through Ferrara, the Saone through Lyons, the Seine through Paris, which cities have various nams, no way derived from the course of those rivers. I believe the matter to be as I have stated, and am of opinion that this city takes its name from the valiant captain Florentius. I have also learned that there are some of our family of Cellini in Ravenna, a much more ancient city than Florence, and that they are people of quality: there are also some of the family in Pisa, and in several other parts of Christendom ; besides a few families that still remain in Tuscany. Most of these have been devoted to arms. It is not many years since a beardless youth, of the name of Luca Cellini, encountered a most valiant and practised soldier, named Francesco da Vicorati, who had often fought in the lists: Luca, who had only courage on his side, vanquished and slew him ; evincing such prowess and intrepidity as astonished the spectators, who all expected a contrary result. So that, upon the whole, I think I may safely boast of being descended from valiant ancestors. Ho...« less