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Often appears with: venice · political legitimacy and consent · hospitality and the guest · florence · custom and the manners of a people · bologna
Usually: narrative (1) · reunion (1) · the stranger's arrival (1) · curiosity (1) · nostalgia (1)
“So I was determined to seek better fortune in a foreign land” Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini · insight
On his journey via Florence, Bologna, Venice, and Padua, Cellini stays with Albertaccio del Bene and receives hospitality from Pietro Bembo, modelling a portrait and medal design.
who spoke for him, he said it was his father; to whom, after many entreaties, I replied: “Because you are his father, for your sake I will take him back.” Note 1. Sforza Sforza, son of Bosio, Count of Santa Fiore, and of Costanza Farnese, the Pope’s natural daughter. He was a youth of sixteen at this epoch. XCIV I HAD formed the resolution, as I said a short while back, to go toward France; partly because I saw th…