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  Introductory Note

  AMONG the vast number of men s place.

  The “Life” of himself .

  The period covered by the autobiography is from Cellini"s birth in 1500 to 1562; the se is mainly in Italy and France. Of the great events of the time, the time of the Reformation and the ter-Reformation, of the strife of Pope and Emperor and King, .

  Much moreplete is the vie glory.

  Very vivid, too, is the impressionhis work.

  The autobiography y.