May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 58m
English
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 10
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Hands OnTHE REAL RENAISSANCE MAN
BENVENUTO CELLINI REJECTED HUMAN LIMITATIONS TO PROVE HIS VALOR.
Photography by Corbis
A GOLDSMITH NEEDS TO LEARN FORGING, casting, filing, soldering, piercing, sawing, and polishing. It’s a difficult craft to master. Now suppose this same goldsmith was also a fine musician. And a painter. Suppose that he also carved large statues in marble, and cast them in bronze. Let’s further suppose that he was a swordsman, a crack shot, a master of artillery, an occultist, and a part-time cleric, and that he personally killed uncounted numbers of people. What kind of guy would that be?
He’d have to be a ...