{"date":"May 6","id":"05-06","intro":["“Benvenuto, the figure cannot succeed in bronze,” so spoke the patron Duke. Cellini, stung to fury, passionately burst out: “You do not understand art.” Feverishly he began the casting of the statue—but read his own account of the tilt with the Duke."],"minutes":25,"readings":[{"author":"Benvenuto Cellini","end":384,"start":373,"volume":31,"work":"Autobiography"}],"slug":"may-6","status":"proofread","title":"A Poor Artist Defies a Rich Duke","url":"/harvard-classics/may-6/","words":5087}