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...Benvenuto Cellini, Treatise on Sculpture
...PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA can boast that it is the greatest open-air sculpture museum in the world. There, with a commanding view, stands the massive equestrian statue of Cosimo I. Past the Fountain of Neptune is the copy of Michelangelo's great David. Still on public view are Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus and Donatello's Judith and Holoferaes...
...friendly-looking man behind the thick-lensed glasses peered around him at the triumphal archway, the red, white, and green Italian flags, the guards of honor, the crowds, the bands, the bannered words of welcome: BENVENUTO AL PRESIDENTE GRONCHI. Along Pennsylvania Avenue he rode at a stately pace, surrounded by the trappings accorded only to the nation's most distinguished visitors, amid the resounding music of military bands. At the White House President Eisenhower was waiting on the steps. "So good to see you," Eisenhower greeted his visitor. "It is the first time an Italian President has visited this...
...exquisite imperial eggs-plus scores of lesser eggs and an array of magnificent necklaces, enameled clocks and jewel-studded cigarette cases that lifted the House of Fabergé to the pinnacle of Europe's jewelry craft, and brought its master a reputation second only to that of Benvenuto Cellini...
Perhaps one of the modern classics of autobiographical pornography, Frank Harris' "My Life and Loves," is on the "Inferno" shelves. The four volume affair is little more than a detailed chronicle of the author's sexual experiences, from the first grade on Benvenuto Cellini's "Autobiography." on the other hand, has a place in the "Inferno principally because of the fine edition...