Hands OnTHE REAL RENAISSANCE MAN
BENVENUTO CELLINI REJECTED HUMAN LIMITATIONS TO PROVE HIS VALOR.
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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 ...
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