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May 6: CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Poor Artist Defies a Rich Duke

"Benvenuto, the figure cannot succeed in bronze," so spoke the
patron Duke. Cellini, stung to fury, passionately burst out:
"You do not understand art." Feverishly he began the casting
of the statue—but read his own account of the tilt with the Duke.

Read from CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY ........   Vol. 31, pp. 373-384