HOW TO PRONOUNCE
cellini
/tʃɛˈlini/
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What does cellini mean?
proper noun
- A surname from Italian.
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IPA pronunciation
/tʃɛˈlini/
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There was to be nothing finer or sweeter in the life of even Benvenuto Cellini, that rough-hewn saint, ten centuries later.
Still more romantic and adventurous was the career of Benvenuto Cellini, the marvellous gold worker, painter, sculptor, engraver, engineer, and author.
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He studied murder as a fine art, and was as skilful in private assassinations as Cellini was in engraving on gems.
They may have been fed on “great shins of beef,” till they became, as Benvenuto Cellini calls them, “the English wild beasts.”
"It was then summer, and the weather very fine; so pleased was I with the country, in which I had never travelled before, that my delight proved equal to my wonder."--BENVENUTO CELLINI.