Angela Biancofiore. Benvenuto Cellini artiste-ecrivain: l'homme a l'oeuvre.(Italian Bookshelf)(Book review)

Annali d'Italianistica | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

Angela Biancofiore. Benvenuto Cellini artiste-ecrivain: l'homme a l'oeuvre. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. Pp. 352.

Angela Biancofiore's important, well-documented book is a welcome contribution to the body of scholarship on Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71). Celebrated as a goldsmith and sculptor, Cellini was also a prolific writer: in addition to his famed Autobiography, he penned numerous sonnets, dozens of letters, and a popular set of art treatises. With her volume, Biancofiore hopes to demonstrate how "la parole de l'ecrivain" is inextricably ...

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