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Show TIIK OGDEN POST FAMOUS ACCOMPLICES OF TIIE PRINCE OF TEMPTERS INSTALLMENT NUMIIEK III BENVENUTO CELLINI vento tracked down the officer wbo had shot him in self defense, and murdered him in cold Mood. Cellini was much attached to his legitimate children, but seemed brutally indifferent to a natural daughter who he deaerted in Paris. Consistent with his character as an the Prince of Tempters Ity L. F. Guimond Cellinis amours were numerous, but volatile and indiscriminate. Typical Cellini The lielief that Cellini had that he of all Italians of this age of the , In including Benvenuto Renaissance' he was intensely religiamong the famous accomplices of the was a great artist and thereforein out him ous, but successfully kept his relegion encouraged Prince of Tempters we can certainly side of the law was grout men of his time, in and morality widely separated. Sybe making no mistake, as his own by manyeven I ope I'aul III, who, on monds holds that Cellini was not a eluding memoirs represent his strongest in one memorable occasion said, Cellin rogue and a liar, which is the comdictment, even as they reflect the true is a great man and therefore no monly accepted estimate of him, but bound by law." Croat princes an rather that he meant to be veracious, personality of. the man. Vain, glor- nobles catered to his egotism and con but was prone to exaggeration. vio doned his ious, ostentations, Cellinis real vices were unquestionfrequent homicides, there lent, arrogant, a man of intense and by greatly inflating his already ably his arrogance, and his over' He was inweening absorbing egotism, his true nature is prodigious his he as were Croat talents of his which vastly proud tensely ancestry perfectly morrored in his autobiog- overrated them and set a monstrously he claimed dated back to a captain for raphy. exaggerated value on his works of art, Julius Caesar, and he says in his Much of the information about Cel It is of his nature that ai memoirs I am proud to trace my lini given here has been taken from thoughtypical he was a fierce and bitter descent from men of valour. Also in an introduction to an English translahis memorirs he says that his given tion of "The Life of Benvenuto Ol-- name, Benvenuto, means welcome, lini" by John Addington Symonds, and was given him by his father who who, while en'husiastic about his subwas overjoyed by the birth of a son ject, nevertheless has painted Cellini where he had pessimistically expected as he indubitably wus. a daughter. Cellini was born in Florence, in Among other things Symonds says, Cellini was 1D00, and was early in life apprenticed supremely conscious of his great gifts for art, ia a goldsmith, a trade in which he was later to become an exquisite physical courage and pcnonnl address. He was at all times artisan, and also a sculptor ox outand his ideal of manly force standing talent. He was forced to of character was to be in eave Florence in 1622, as the result all circumstances, to scheme and strike of a duel, and after wandering about for a time he arrived in Rome, He if need bo in support of his opinion or his right; to take the law into his own soon earned the patronage of Pope hand for the Vcdress of an injury or Clement VII who considered him the an insult. greatest worker in precious metals of sis time. Symonds further says that he had the temperament of a born artist Although many historians claim it o be but an idle boast, Cellini always blended in almost equal proportions claimed to have personally killed the with that of a born bravo. He enConstable de Bourbon and the Prince joyed killing live men as much as he of bronze SensiOrange during the seige of Rome, statues. enjoyed casting following which he returned to Flortive, impulsive, rash of speech, Benence where for a time he devoted his venuto injured himself constantly by his eccentricities of temper. Ilis begreat talent to the designing of med-d- s, later going back to Rome where lief in himself was as firm as adamant, ie worked under Michelangelo, and and it is quite evident from his auto10 designed coins for Pope Clement. BENVENUTO CELLINI biography that he believed himself, at In 1634, he was forced to flee from all times, to bo a much abused and misrival he was, nevertheless, a clear Rome after murdering a rival, and understood man. and impartial critic, giving went to France for a time, thence back Cellini even went so far as to con- sighted full credit to the works of his con- to Rome, where he was thrown into ceive the idea that he was under the temporaries, the while hating them for prison, from which he escaped at great special providence of a merciful and their successes. personal peril. In 1540, Francis I loving God who fully appreciated his In his private life his friendship was high and virtuous qualities. uncertain, but by that we do not mean Cellini's autobiography is probably treacherous, rather, shall we say, wayone of the most interesting of all hu- ward. He was generous and hospitman documents because h wrote pre- able, but would not brook or tolerate cisely as he thought and talked, whol- any crossing of his humor. He cherly unhampered by gramatical con- ished an intense love for his family, struction, and his editors and trans- and was always a good and dutiful lators have wisely refrained from in- son, and passionately loved his brother terfering in any way with the vivid- Cecchino, a wicked blade and stormy ness of his narrative style, with the petrel like himself. This same brother result that his entire memoirs arc a Cecchino was wounded while engaged record of action and passion and in- in the pleasant pastime of assassindicate most clearly the mun's almost ating a constable in cold blood. When unbelieveable egotism. ho had died from these wounds, Ben accomplice of self-laudator- y, self-conce- self-assertiv- it. e, invited him to make his home at the of France where he stayed for years on a tension, during which time he was ennobled; but he quarrelled with everyone in the French Court, and eventually returned to Florence where he spent the remainder of his life in constant affrays and adventures. That sense of humor which we have been led to suppose forms a part of the diabolical nature of the IVince of Tempters must have received a great fillup when Cellini, in his fifty-eigyear, shaved his unsanctimonious head and retired to a monastery to write his autobiography. 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