Cellini: Artist, Genius, Fugitive

Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2003. Cloth, ix, 245 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations, 1 portrait; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The life of Cellini is a romping good story which at present exists only in the form of a memoir, read by students and specialists. Derek Parker retells Cellini's life, setting it in the context of the turbulent world of Renaissance Europe. Cellini, famous as sculptor and goldsmith, and patronized by both Francis I of France and the Medici courts of Tuscany, was one of the most picturesque figures of the Renaissance. His adventures, hot temper and tendency to fight, his escapes from prison and amorous escapades among the Florentine and Roman nobility, and his interest in magic, made him a figure of renown in his own time, and beyond." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Becoming himself; I mean to be free; The music of the guns; Murder, revenge and magic; Not without a little pride . . . ; Prisoner of the pope; Miseries and visions; The court at Fontainebleau; Quarrels with king and court; The nymph of Fontainebleau; The Medici patron; Myths in marble; Perseus; Imprisonment and the crucifix; Death and immortality. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.