At the age of fifty-eight Benvenuto Cellini shaved his head and retired to a monastery to write his own story of murder, passion, and great deeds of the Renaissance. His life is a vivid picture of the most colorful period in history, a period when statecraft and religion and black magic and assassination were naively mingled in men's lives. (Volume 31, Harvard Classics)
Benvenuto Cellini died Feb. 13, 1570.
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Poems, by Walt Whitman
Introductory Note: Drake’s Great Armada
Drake’s Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. XIII-XIX), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (The Second Dialogue), by George Berkeley
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust (Part I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
First Charter of Virginia
Introductory Note: The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
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Introductory Note: Aeschylus
The Libation-Bearers (Part II), by Aeschylus
Introductory Note: William Wordsworth
Poems, by William Wordsworth
Introductory Note: Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (VII), by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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