Cellini

[ chuh-lee-nee; Italian chel-lee-nee ]

/ tʃəˈli ni; Italian tʃɛlˈli ni /

noun

Ben·ve·nu·to

[ben-vuh-noo-toh, -nyoo-; Italian ben-ve-noo-taw] /ˌbɛn vəˈnu toʊ, -ˈnyu-; Italian ˌbɛn vɛˈnu tɔ/, 1500–71, Italian, metalsmith, sculptor, and autobiographer.

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Examples from the Web for cellini

Before Cellini, memoirists tended to restrict themselves to professional accomplishments and philosophy.
The First Celebrity Tell-All|Nathaniel Rich|September 22, 2010|DAILY BEAST
There is no shortage of boasting in Autobiography, but Cellini is careful to attribute the praise to his patrons.
The First Celebrity Tell-All|Nathaniel Rich|September 22, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Cellini regularly kept young women in his home to serve as models.
The First Celebrity Tell-All|Nathaniel Rich|September 22, 2010|DAILY BEAST
“I am wreaking a double vengeance,” writes Cellini, barely suppressing a cackle.
The First Celebrity Tell-All|Nathaniel Rich|September 22, 2010|DAILY BEAST

But a listener has sneaked in—Fieramosca, the Pope's sculptor, and no less Cellini's rival in love than in art.
The Complete Opera Book|Gustav Kobb
There would be a good deal of Cellini cup and Limoges plate, and Palissy dish, and golden chased goblet about it, no doubt.
The Art of Entertaining|M. E. W. Sherwood
To delineate Cellini will be the business of a distant chapter.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)|John Addington Symonds
You are, of course, willing to make some allowance for Cellini's time and place—the first half of the sixteenth century and Italy.
Obiter Dicta|Augustine Birrell
This was a great improvement on the simple concave mirror which so terrified Cellini.
Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions Including Trick Photography|Albert A. Hopkins

British Dictionary definitions for cellini

Cellini

/ (tʃɪˈliːnɪ, Italian tʃɛlˈliːni) /

noun

Benvenuto (benveˈnuːto). 1500–71, Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and engraver, noted also for his autobiography

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