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Lavoro e vita in Benvenuto Cellini

  • Giovanni Mari

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.

  • Keywords:
  • Cellini,
  • craftsman,
  • freedom,
  • self-realization,
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Giovanni Mari

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-6045-968X

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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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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

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2024

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© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

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2704-5919

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