Excerpt from Chisel, Pen and Poignard, or Benvenuto Cellini: His Times and His Contemporaries This book must doubtless risk the criticism that, if there were one man above all others con cerning whom there was no need for anything more to be written, that man was Benvenuto Cellini, wh'ose autobiography was pronounced by Horace Walpole to be more amusing than any novel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.