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Cellini and Vincenzo de' Rossi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy*
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Renaissance News , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1951 , pp. 33 - 39
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1951

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References

1 Edward A. Parsons, “At the Funeral of Michelangelo,” Renaissance Nevis, Summer 1951.

2 Rome, 1901, p. 608, n. 3; the history of the letter is also given.

3 Plon, , Benvenuto Cellini, orfévre, médailleur, sculpteur. Paris, 1883, pp. 103-4.Google Scholar

4 Lorenzoni, A. in his Carteggio inedito di D. Vine. Borghini, Florence, 1912, p. 164 Google Scholar states that the letter is also published in Bianchini's edition of the Vita, Florence, 1886, p. 505, but I have not been able to check this reference.

5 Milanesi's, Cf. edition of the Giunta publication of Esequie del divino Michelangelo, Florence, 1875 Google Scholar; Lapini, Agostino, Diario Fiorentino, ed. Corazzini, , 1900 Google Scholar, under date of March 10, 1563/4.

6 The original error was made by Symonds in the Appendix to his translation of Cellini's autobiography. He telescoped the first Florentine funeral, the electidn of the committee and the formal obsequies into a single event. Symonds’ account of these events is, however, perfectly accurate in his Michelangelo, II, pp. 325-330 (3rd edition). Cellini must have attended the S. Croce service. Vasari, Cf., Vite, ed. Milanesi, , Florence, 1881, VII, p. 402.Google Scholar

7 The Esequie specifies an ailment in one foot, ed. cit., p. 35. It cannot have been the gout which so frequently plagued Cellini, for he himself noted two years later his first attack in six years. Rusconi and Valeri, cit., p. 615.

8 No complete synthesis of Cellini documents has yet been published. A useful compendium is to be found in Rusconi and Valeri cit.; the chronology in Bacci's edition of the Vita (Florence, 1901) is the most comprehensive but is admittedly incomplete.

9 Cellini, , Trattati dell’ Oreficeria e della Scultura, Florence, 1568 Google Scholar, dedicatory preface.

10 The autobiography breaks off abruptly with a trip to Pisa in 1562, so the story of Cellini's remaining nine years of life is fragmentary. For a sympathetic account of Cellini's response to his hostile artistic environment in Florence cf. Kriegbaum, Marmi di Benvenuto Cellini ritrovati,” L'Arte, 1940, pp. 3-25.

11 Gotti, , Vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florence, 1875, I, pp. 364-5.Google Scholar

12 In a letter to the duke of May 22, 1564, Vasari wrote as if the responsibility had been chiefly his (cf. Vasari, Vite, ed. cit; VIII, pp. 380-1; the Esequie, too, especially commends his assiduity in everything pertaining to the funeral).

13 Kallab, , Vasarisludien, Vienna/Leipzig, 1908, pp. 114-5.Google Scholar

14 Carden, , The Life of Giorgio Vasari, New York, 1910, p. 359.Google Scholar

15 Ibid., p. 188.

16 Gaye, Carteggio, 1840, III, p. 107. Borghini was also in charge of this project, cf. Lorenzoni, Carteggio, cit., p. 168.

17 Carden, op. cit., p. 204.

18 Plon, of. cit., p. 235.

19 Vasari, ed. cit., VII, p. 403.

20 Ibid., VIII, pp. 381-3. Vasari is usually commended for writing in a more temperate way of Cellini than Benvenuto writes of him, yet this hasty tale-bearing to the duke seems like deliberate sabotage.

21 Oratione o vero discorso di m. Giovan Maria Tarsia fatio nell’ Essequie del divino Michel A. B., Florence, 1564.

22 I have not been able to trace Mr. Parsons’ statement that “two architects” . . “walked” . . “first” . . “behind the coffin.” Michelangelo's bones were not removed from S. Croce for the occasion. Cf. Lapini, Diario, loc. cit.

23 cit., VII, p. 627. It is noteworthy that most of the actual work was done by the younger artists or by pupils of the major artists under their direction. One contributor, Domenico Poggini, had formerly been a pupil of Cellini's.

24 Gotti, of. cil., p. 368, n. 5. For the drawing of the catafalque attributed to Zanobi Lastricati, treasurer of the executive committee, Steinmann, cf., Die Portraitdarstellungen des Michelangelo, Leipzig, 1913 Google Scholar, Tf. 73.

25 ‘Sconosciuto ritratto di Michelangelo”, L'Arte, 1938, N.S. 9, p. 369 and fig. 1.

26 Marquand, , Benedetto and Santi Buglioni, Princeton, 1921.Google Scholar

27 Clothing of the Naked, Alinari 10254.

28 I was unable to consult Frey, , Der literarische Nachlass Giorgio Vasaris, vol. 2, Munich, 1930 Google Scholar, until after this note had gone to press. A letter of Borghini's dated March 22, 1564 (p. 63) urges Vasari to hurry the plan for the funeral since Cellini is already angry and upset. A letter of April 8 (p. 69) further deplores the delay and states Borghini's preference that the executants of the work should be chosen by the four deputies rather than himself, a responsibility which he must have undertaken by April 13. [Cf. discussion of funeral, ibid. pp. 36-44.]