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...Benvenuto Redivivus...
This is a volume of exploits, explanations and ego. It is Benvenuto Cellini, reincarnated as a Scotch-American jack of all tricks and trades including newspaper cartooning, reminiscing at spry 65 over a career that began in the horsecar period. It brings in, with insouciant yet convincing familiarity, more famous names from all rosters of life than (perhaps) any other book ever published in the U. S. Its purpose is not to be historical, but since an age of arrogance is chronicled by one of its most superb exemplars, history is served with unwonted solicitude...
...Rose has rarely consisted of a single rose. The one given to Queen Elizabeth has 19 buds and full-blown blossoms, and 290 leaves. Petals and leaves the Pope's cunning goldsmiths have beaten out of 22-carat gold, just as some 400 years ago self-righteous, scapegrace Goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini beat out ingenious knicknacks for Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII). These smiths have tinted lightly the petals of this Rose with pink, the leaves with green, so that the spray glistens with a heart-stopping iridescence of varied movement and light. To aid verisimilitude the spray contains...
When Edwin Justus Mayer announced his play to New York playgoers, with Benvenuto Cellini as the principal character, the reviewers expected a dull and serious historical drama. Instead, they discovered an amusing farce, shot through with satire, which deals with Cellini in his youth as, "a gay blade, a likeable braggart, a great artist and a favorite with the ladies," writes one of its reviewers...
...MEMOIRS OF BENVENUTO CELLINI...