The writer and the man. Real crimes and mitigating circumstances: <i>il caso Cellini</i>

Rossi, Paolo

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“…One famous case is that of the Florentine Benvenuto Cellini (1500±1571), goldsmith, sculptor, architect, thief, sodomite, and murderer, whose artistic and criminal careers were punctuated with requests for grace and privileged treatment obtained from princes and popes, not for the wealth or nobility of his person but for his talent and artistic ability. 37 However, this is not the only case of a man whose genius placed him above the law. 38 In Venice, workers at the shipyards, condemned to one year in prison in 1594, managed to obtain a swift release after having simply endured a scolding.…”

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Supplications between Politics and Justice: The Northern and Central Italian States in the Early Modern Age

Nubola¹

2001

Int Rev of Soc His

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“Those who think to do away with petitions would overthrow the entire system of the State”. This remark – taken from an anonymous eighteenth-century account of the political organization of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza – describes well the importance attributed to complaints in the organization of the state. Through complaints, or petitions, it is generally possible to verify a number of fundamental forms and modes of communication between society and the institutions of the ancien regime, and to reconstruct the procedures of mediation, repression, acceptance, and agreement adopted by princes, sovereigns, or magistracies in response to social demands.

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Supplications between Politics and Justice: The Northern and Central Italian States in the Early Modern Age

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2001

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ACTing UP in the Renaissance:The Case of Benvenuto Cellini

Gallucci¹

2004

Queer Italia

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For “Honor and Profit”: Benvenuto Cellini’s Medal of Clement VII and His Competition with Giovanni Bernardi

Holman¹

2005

Renaiss. Q.

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This article examines the frameworks of artistic competition embodied in a 1534 contract for a contest of medalmaking between Benvenuto Cellini and Giovanni Bernardi, and in descriptions of other competitions, especially in Cellini’s autobiography. Strategies, decorum, and rhetoric of such competitions were embedded in notions of honor. In addition to personal and professional honor, court status and patronage were also at stake. By means of his competition with Bernardi and his medal of Pope Clement VII, Cellini hoped to recoup lost standing and favor, along with concomitant commissions and emoluments at the papal court — specifically, it is argued, an appointment at the Roman mint, where Cellini had been replaced by Bernardi in 1534. Cellini, however, was never rehabilitated at Clement’s court, and within days of the death of his patron, he murdered Pompeo de’ Capitaneis, the rival goldsmith whom he blamed for his loss of honor and profit.

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The writer and the man. Real crimes and mitigating circumstances: il caso Cellini

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Supplications between Politics and Justice: The Northern and Central Italian States in the Early Modern Age

Supplications between Politics and Justice: The Northern and Central Italian States in the Early Modern Age

ACTing UP in the Renaissance:The Case of Benvenuto Cellini

For “Honor and Profit”: Benvenuto Cellini’s Medal of Clement VII and His Competition with Giovanni Bernardi

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