The Life of Benvenuto Cellini allows us to understand what work was like for a sixteenth-century craftsman. In Cellini the activity of work detaches itself from necessity and becomes the object of a choice, of continuous improvement, of a passion independent of the need to provide for the reproduction of material existence (which it obviously provides), and therefore becomes a process of spiritual elevation and identity construction, self-realization and that is a need. This idea of work presupposes a high degree of freedom which Cellini achieves by refusing to manufacture objects based on someone else's design. This passion and freedom of work has a price in terms of a life unilaterally articulated around work: everything in Cellini's existence is linked directly or indirectly to work.
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Titolo del capitolo
Lavoro e vita in Benvenuto Cellini
Autori
Giovanni Mari
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.51
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919