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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Leviathan (Ch. II & III), by Thomas Hobbes
Introductory Note: Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer (Act I), by Oliver Goldsmith
Introductory Note: Izaak Walton
The Life of Mr. George Herbert, by Izaak Walton
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XX), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Robert Browning
Poems, by Robert Browning
Introductory Note: Izaak Walton
The Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi (Ch. 31), by Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory Note: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (Ch. 24-27)
Introductory Note: Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch. 1), by Adam Smith
Introductory Note: Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth of Intercourse, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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