Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Dec 10– From "The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini" (1723) translated by John Addington Symonds

 How I imagine Cellini

Dec 10– From The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1723) translated by John Addington Symonds

Summary: Cellini tries to cockblock a kid and continues to be a meme.

Commentary: It's amazing how many modern memes and edgelordism just fit into Cellini, despite being 300 years old. He almost drops, "you're already dead," "a big guy, for you," "I must go all out, just this once."

He's like like an Anti-Don Quixote. DQ's narrator knows he's nuts, but he's mostly a good guy. Cellini buys into his own bullshit and doesn't even pretend not to be an asshole.

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