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Feb 13– Cellini’s Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini (1563) translated by John Symonds
Summary: Cellini almost single handedly defends Rome.
Comments: Slowly recovering from that stomach bug, and trying to get back into doing the blog properly. This is an odd one. Tonight's selection mostly deals with Cellini supposedly stopping a siege of Rome almost single handedly. From skimming the Wikipedia page, his entire autobiography is apparently like this, with details of his torturing and/or murdering people, summoning demons, etc. It's odd, and not really the kind of thing I'd expected when I started this project, but not uninteresting. He's kind of a Mary Sue though.
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