{"date":"February 13","id":"02-13","intro":["At the age of fifty-eight Benvenuto Cellini shaved his head and retired to a monastery to write his own story of murder, passion, and great deeds of the Renaissance. His life is a vivid picture of the most colorful period in history, a period when statecraft and religion and black magic and assassination were naïvely mingled in men’s lives."],"minutes":25,"readings":[{"author":"Benvenuto Cellini","end":80,"start":68,"volume":31,"work":"Autobiography"}],"slug":"february-13","status":"proofread","title":"The Frank Story of an Amazing Life","url":"/harvard-classics/february-13/","words":5076}