This collection of essays is dedicated to the Italian Renaissance artist and autobiographer Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71). It approaches Cellini's multifarious works from new perspectives, and includes anecdotes from the artist's life that no doubt cemented his reputation as a proud and passionate individual. The volume opens with an introduction by the editors themselves, followed by nine essays, and is divided into five parts: the first examines Cellini's relations with his patrons and rival artists, especially at the Medici court; the second sheds light on his technical skills in goldsmithery and jewellery; the third discusses writing and iconography as they were
In the period 1490-99, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) wrote nearly three hundred literary writings that were later compiled by scholars into four primary collections: the Bestiario, Favole, Facezie, and Profezia. This article takes Leonardo’s Profezia as its main subject in order to give due recognition to the generic nature of this collection. Specifically, it examines the texts in the Profezia as examples of mixed genre in an attempt to demonstrate how ethos, context, and generic convention yield to the greater moral statement made by Leonardo in the writings themselves. Unlike Leonardo’s other three literary collections, which subscribe to an easily identifiable literary genre, the Profezia texts are hybrid writings that enjoin its readers to consider instead why and how the mixture of forms might be a necessary means of expression to convey a truth and reality.
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