The Life of Benvenuto Cellini allows us to understand what work was like for a sixteenth-century craftsman. In Cellini the activity of work detaches itself from necessity and becomes the object of a choice, of continuous improvement, of a passion independent of the need to provide for the reproduction of material existence (which it obviously provides), and therefore becomes a process of spiritual elevation and identity construction, self-realization and that is a need. This idea of work presupposes a high degree of freedom which Cellini achieves by refusing to manufacture objects based on someone else's design. This passion and freedom of work has a price in terms of a life unilaterally articulated around work: everything in Cellini's existence is linked directly or indirectly to work.
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Chapter Title
Lavoro e vita in Benvenuto Cellini
Authors
Giovanni Mari
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.51
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919