1、 第第 31 卷卷 切利尼自传切利尼自传 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 2/496 总目录总目录 第第 1 卷卷 富兰克林自传富兰克林自传 第第 2 卷卷 柏拉图对话录：辩解篇、菲多柏拉图对话录：辩解篇、菲多篇、克利多篇篇、克利多篇 第第 3 卷卷 培根论说文集及新阿特兰蒂斯培根论说文集及新阿特兰蒂斯 第第 4 卷卷 约翰米尔顿英文诗全集约翰米尔顿英文诗全集 第第 5 卷卷 爱默生文集爱默生文集 第第 6 卷卷 伯恩斯诗歌集伯恩斯诗歌集 第第 7 卷卷 圣奥古斯丁忏悔录圣奥古斯丁忏悔录 第第 8 卷卷 希腊戏剧希腊戏剧 第第 9 卷
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3、人许婚的爱人 第第 22 卷卷 奥德赛奥德赛 第第 23 卷卷 两年水手生涯两年水手生涯 第第 24 卷卷 伯克文集伯克文集 第第 25 卷卷 穆勒文集穆勒文集 第第 26 卷卷 欧洲大陆戏剧欧洲大陆戏剧 第第 27 卷卷 英国名家随笔英国名家随笔 第第 28 卷卷 英国与美国名家随笔英国与美国名家随笔 第第 29 卷卷 比格尔号上的旅行比格尔号上的旅行 第第 30 卷卷 科学论文集：物理学、化学、科学论文集：物理学、化学、天文学、地质学天文学、地质学 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 4/496 第第 31 卷卷 切利尼自传切利尼自传
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5、德费兹杰拉德 第第 42 卷卷 英文诗集（卷）从丁尼生到英文诗集（卷）从丁尼生到惠特曼惠特曼 第第 43 卷卷 10001904 第第 44 卷卷 圣书圣书(卷一卷一):孔子孔子 希伯来书希伯来书 基基百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 5/496 督圣经督圣经()第第 45 卷卷 圣书圣书(卷二卷二)基督圣经基督圣经()第第 46 卷卷 伊丽莎白时期戏剧（卷）伊丽莎白时期戏剧（卷）第第 47 卷卷 伊丽莎白时期戏剧（卷）伊丽莎白时期戏剧（卷）第第 48 卷卷 帕斯卡文集帕斯卡文集 第第 49 卷卷 史诗与传说史诗与传说 第第 50 卷卷
6、 哈佛经典讲座哈佛经典讲座 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 6/496 第第 31 卷卷 切利尼自传切利尼自传 INTRODUCTORY NOTE AMONG the vast number of men who have thought fit to write down the history of their own lives,three or four have achieved masterpieces which stand out preeminently:Saint Augustine in his“Confessi
7、ons,”Samuel Pepys in his“Diary,”Rousseau in his“Confessions.”It is among these extraordinary documents,and unsurpassed by any of them,that the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini takes its place.The“Life”of himself which Cellini wrote was due to other motives than those which produced its chief compe
8、titors for first place in its class.St.Augustines aim was religious and didactic,Pepys noted down in his diary the daily events of his life for his sole satisfaction and with no intention that any one should read the cipher in which they were recorded.But Cellini wrote that the world might know,afte
9、r he was dead,what a fellow he had been;what great things he had attempted,and against what odds he had carried them through.“All men,”he held,“whatever be their condition,who have done anything of merit,or which verily has a semblance of merit,if so be they are men of truth and good repute,should w
10、rite the tale of their life with their own hand.”That he had done many things of merit,he had no manner of doubt.His repute was great in his day,and perhaps good in the sense in which he meant goodness;as to whether he was a man of truth,there is still dispute among scholars.Of some misrepresentatio
11、ns,some suppressions of damaging facts,there seems to be evidence only too good-a man with Cellinis passion for proving himself in the right could hardly have avoided being guilty of such-;but of the general trustworthiness of his record,of the kind of man he was and the kind of life he led,there is
12、 no reasonable doubt.The period covered by the autobiography is from Cellinis birth in 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 7/496 1500 to 1562;the scene is mainly in Italy and France.Of the great events of the time,the time of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation,of the strife of Pop
13、e and Emperor and King,we get only glimpses.The leaders in these events appear in the foreground of the picture only when they come into personal relations with the hero;and then not mainly as statesmen or warriors,but as connoisseurs and patrons of art.Such an event as the Sack of Rome is described
14、 because Benvenuto himself fought in it.Much more complete is the view he gives of the artistic life of the time.It was the age of Michelangelo,and in the throng of great artists which then filled the Italian cities,Cellini was no inconsiderable figure.Michelangelo himself he knew and adored.Nowhere
15、 can we gain a better idea than in this book of the passionate enthusiasm for the creation of beauty which has bestowed upon the Italy of the Renaissance its greatest glory.Very vivid,too,is the impression we receive of the social life of the sixteenth century;of its violence and licentiousness,of i
16、ts zeal for fine craftsmanship,of its abounding vitality,its versatility and its idealism.For Cellini himself is an epitome of that century.This man who tells here the story of his life was a murderer and a braggart,insolent,sensual,inordinately proud and passionate;but he was also a worker in gold
17、and silver,rejoicing in delicate chasing and subtle modelling of precious surfaces;a sculptor and a musician;and,as all who read his book must testify,a great master of narrative.Keen as was Benvenutos interest in himself,and much as he loved to dwell on the splendor of his exploits and achievements
18、,he had little idea that centuries after his death he would live again,less by his“Perseus”and his goldsmiths work than by the book which he dictated casually to a lad of fourteen,while he went about his work.The autobiography was composed between 1558 and 1566,but it 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classic
19、s 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 8/496 brings the record down only to 1562.The remainder of Cellinis life seems to have been somewhat more peaceful.In 1565 he married Piera de Salvadore Parigi,a servant who had nursed him when he was sick;and in the care of his children,as earlier of his sister and nieces,he showed m
20、ore tenderness than might have been expected from a man of his boisterous nature.He died at Florence,May 13,1571,and was buried in The Church of the Annunziata in that city.This tale of my sore-troubled life I write,To thank the God of nature,who conveyed My soul to me,and with such care hath stayed
21、 That divers noble deeds Ive brought to light.Twas He subdued my cruel fortunes spite:Life glory virtue measureless hath made Such grace worth beauty be through me displayed That few can rival,none surpass me quite.Only it grieves me when I understand What precious time in vanity Ive spent The wind
22、it beareth mans frail thoughts away.Yet,since remorse avails not,Im content,As erst I came,WELCOME to go one day,Here in the Flower of this fair Tuscan land.BENVENUTO CELLINIS AUTOBIGOGRAOHY BOOKS FIRSTI ALL men of whatsoever quality they be,who have done anything of excellence,or which may properly
23、 resemble excellence,ought,if they are persons of truth and honesty,to describe their life with their own hand;but they ought not to attempt so fine an enterprise till they have passed the age of forty.This duty occurs to my own mind now that I am travelling beyond the term of fifty-eight years,and
24、am in Florence,the city of my birth.Many untoward things can I remember,such as happen to all who 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 9/496 live upon our earth;and from those adversities I am now more free than at any previous period of my careernay,it seems to me that I enjoy greater cont
25、ent of soul and health of body than ever I did in bygone years.I can also bring to mind some pleasant goods and some inestimable evils,which,when I turn my thoughts backward,strike terror in me,and astonishment that I should have reached this age of fifty-eight,wherein,thanks be to God,I am still tr
26、avelling prosperously forward.II It is true that men who have laboured with some show of excellence,have already given knowledge of themselves to the world;and this alone ought to suffice them;I mean the fact that they have proved their manhood and achieved renown.Yet one must needs live like others
27、;and so in a work like this there will always be found occasion for natural bragging,which is of divers kinds,and the first is that a man should let others know he draws his lineage from persons of worth and most ancient origin.I am called Benvenuto Cellini,son of Maestro Giovanni,son of Andrea,son
28、of Cristofano Cellini;my mother was Madonna Elisabetta,daughter to Stefano Granacci;both parents citizens of Florence.It is found written in chronicles made by our ancestors of Florence,men of old time and of credibility,even as Giovanni Villani writes,that the city of Florence was evidently built i
29、n imitation of the fair city of Rome;and certain remnants of the Colosseum and the Baths can yet be traced.These things are near Santa Croce.The Capitol was where is now the Old Market.The Rotonda is entire,which was made for the temple of Mars,and is now dedicated to our Saint John.That thus is was
30、,can very well be seen,and cannot be denied,but the said buildings are much smaller than those of Rome.He who caused them to built,they say,was Julius Csar,in concert with some noble Romans,who,when Fiesole had been stormed and taken,raised a city in this place,and each of them took in hand to erect
31、 one of these notable edifices.百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 10/496 Julius Csar had among his captains a man of highest rank and valour,who was called Fiorino of Cellino,which is a village about two miles distant from Monte Fiascone.Now this Fiorino took up his quarters under the hil
32、l of Fiesole,on the ground where Florence now stands,in order to be near the river Arno,and for the convenience of the troops.All those soldiers and others who had to do with the said captain,used then to say:“Let us go to Fiorenze;”as well because the said captain was called Fiorino,as also because
33、 the place he had chosen for his quarters was by nature very rich in flowers.Upon the foundation of the city,therefore,since this name struck Julius Csar as being fair and apt,and given by circumstance,and seeing furthermore that flowers themselves bring good augury,he appointed the name of Florence
34、 for the town.He wished besides to pay his valiant captain this compliment;and he loved him all the more for having drawn him from a very humble place,and for the reason that so excellent a man was a creature of his own.The name that learned inventors and investigators of such etymologies adduce,as
35、that Florence is flowing at the Arno,cannot hold;seeing that Rome is flowing at the Tiber,Ferrara is flowing at the Po,Lyons is flowing at the Saone,Paris is flowing at the Seine,and yet the names of all these towns are different,and have come to them by other ways.注 1 Thus then we find;and thus we
36、believe that we are descended from a man of worth.Furthermore,we find that there are Cellinis of our stock in Ravenna,that most ancient town of Italy,where too are plenty of gentle folk.In Pisa also there are some,and I have discovered them in many parts of Christendom;and in this state also the bre
37、ed exists,men devoted to the profession of arms;for not many years ago a young man,called Luca Cellini,a beardless youth,fought with a soldier of experience and a most valorous man,named Francesco da Vicorati,who had frequently fought before in single combat.This Luca,by his own valour,with sword in
38、 hand,overcame and slew him,with such bravery and stoutness that he moved 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 11/496 the folk to wonder,who were expecting quite the contrary issue;so that I glory in tracing my descent from men of valour.As for the trifling honours which I have gained for m
39、y house,under the well-known conditions of our present ways of living,and by means of my art,albeit the same are matters of no great moment,I will relate these in their proper time and place,taking much more pride in having been born humble and having laid some honourable foundation for my family,th
40、an if I had been born of great lineage and had stained or overclouded that by my base qualities.So then I will make a beginning by saying how it pleased God I should be born.III My ancestors dwelt in Val d Ambra,where they owned large estates,and lived like little lords,in retirement,however,on acco
41、unt of the then contending factions.They were all men devoted to arms and of notable bravery.In that time one of their sons,the younger,who was called Cristofano,roused a great feud with certain of their friends and neighbours.Now the heads of the families on both sides took part in it,and the fire
42、kindled seemed to them so threatening that their houses were like to perish utterly;the elders upon this consideration,in concert with my own ancestors,removed Cristofano;and the other youth with whom the quarrel began was also sent away.They sent their young man to Siena.Our folk sent Cristofano to
43、 Florence;and there they bought for him a little house in Via Chiara,close to the convent of S.Orsola,and they also purchased for him some very good property near the Ponte a Rifredi.The said Cristofano took wife in Florence,and had sons and daughters;and when all the daughters had been portioned of
44、f,the sons,after their fathers death,divided what remained.The house in Via Chiara with some other trifles fell to the share of one of the said sons,who had the name of Andrea.He also took wife,and had four male children.The first was called Girolamo,the second Bartolommeo,the third Giovanni,who was
45、 afterwards my father,and the fourth Francesco.This Andrea Cellini was 百年哈佛 50 部经典 英文版 Harvard Classics 第 31 卷 切利尼自传 12/496 very well versed in architecture,as it was then practised,and lived by it as his trade.Giovanni,who was my father,paid more attention to it than any of the other brothers.And s
46、ince Vitruvius says,amongst other things,that one who wishes to practise that art well must have something of music and good drawing,Giovanni,when he had mastered drawing,began to turn his mind to music,and together with the theory learned to play most excellently on the viol and the flute;and being
47、 a person of studious habits,he left his home but seldom.They had for neighbour in the next house a man called Stefano Granacci,who had several daughters,all of them of remarkable beauty.As it pleased God,Giovanni noticed one of these girls who was named Elisabetta;and she found such favour with him
48、 that he asked her in marriage.The fathers of both of them being well acquainted through their close neighbourhood,it was easy to make this match up;and each thought that he had very well arranged his affairs.First of all the two good old men agreed upon the marriage;then they began to discuss the d
49、owry,which led to a certain amount of friendly difference;for Andrea said to Stefano:“My son Giovanni is the stoutest youth of Florence,and of all Italy to boot,and if I had wanted earlier to have him married,I could have procured one of the largest dowries which folk of our rank get in Florence:”wh
50、ereupon Stefano answered:“You have a thousand reasons on your side;but here am I with five daughters and as many sons,and when my reckoning is made,this is as much as I can possibly afford.”Giovanni,who had been listening awhile unseen by them,suddenly broke in and said:“O my father,I have sought an
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