AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI ILLUSTRATED BY SALVADOR DALI

Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City , New York, 1948. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden city , New York (1948). Red cloth over boards, gold design on front cover, gold lettering on black at spine. NEAR MINT/NO DJ. ILLUSTRATED BY SALVADOR DALI. Benvenuto Cellini Born, 3 November 1500
Florence, Republic of Florence
Died 13 February 1571 (aged 70)
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Resting place Santissima Annunziata, Florence[1]
Nationality Italian
Education Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
Known for Goldsmith, sculptor, author
Notable work Cellini Salt Cellar
Movement Mannerism (wiki)

Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal court. Inn-keepers and prostitutes, kings and cardinals, artists and soldiers rub shoulders in the pages of his notorious autobiography: a vivid portrait of the manners and morals of both the rulers of the day and of their subjects. Written with supreme powers of invective and an irrepressible sense of humour, this is an unrivalled glimpse into the palaces and prisons of the Italy of Michelangelo and the Medici. (Good Read). Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City , New York, 1948. Copyright,1946 by Doubleday & Company, inc. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. NEAR MINT, solid, no pulling of spine, no bumped corners, text vibrant, no writing or foxing. No DJ, Red cloth over boards, gold design on front cover, gold lettering on black at spine,