Talk:Benvenuto Cellini

message: Instead of showing real Cellini's work, this article depicts one or two replicas. Why depict replicas instead of original art? Is the same as to put a picture of a faked Rolex instead of a original one and call it "Rolex replica". Lame! --200.216.236.74 (talk) 12:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Symonds, as it says, died in 1893, and the book to which this is an introduction has been made available as a Project Gutenberg e-text. I think copyright is probably not an issue here... —Paul A 07:49, 10 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replicas? Why replicas? 

message: *the e-text of John Addington Symonds translation of the Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini''
-- Zoe
:Symonds, as it says, died in 1893, and the book to which this is an introduction has been made available as a Project Gutenberg e-text. I think copyright is probably not an issue here... —Paul A 07:49, 10 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: External Link

message: I always thought the picture of Cellini's Perseus that accompanied this article was pretty crappy. Not only was it small, dark and colourless but it showed the statue in its worst ever condition before its much-needed restoration.
So I was delighted to find a a much better picture on Wikipedia Netherlands, because it meant it was already licensed for use. And here it is. (And I'm not ashamed to admit it, but now he's had a wash and brush-up the guy is hot!)
Lee M 20:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The Perseus picture has now been replaced by one that's bigger, but darker and slightly unsharp. Lee M 12:44, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Also added Salt Cellar image from Swedish Wikipedia because it was just too good to pass up, and in the public domain too. Lee M 12:39, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perseus image 

message: His account of Bandinelli's insult: "<<...voltomisi con quel suo brutissimo visaccio, a un tratto mi disse : -Oh sta cheto,
sodomitaccio! Il duca a quella parola serrò la ciglia malamente in verso di lui e, gli altri serrato le
bocche ed aggrottato gli occhi in verso di lui, io, che mi senti' così scelleratamente offendere,
sforzato dal furore, ed a un tratto, corsi al rimedio, e dissi : -O pazzo, tu esci dei termini; ma Iddio 'l
volessi che io sapessi fare une così nobile arte, perché e' si legge ch'e' l'usò Giove con Ganimede in
paradiso, e qui in terra e' la usano i maggiori imperatori ed i più gran re del mondo>>. Haiduc 00:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Cellini has always been know as a lecher, however I find it to be quite terrible that he should be not on the "historical pederastic couples". How can anyone say the great lover of boys Benvenuto Cellini was a heterosexual? --Margrave1206 22:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sodomitaccio! 

message: If no one can find a critic of any sort to back it up, the part about his works pointing toward homosexuality should be deleted. To someone else, it could signify the sexist views of the age, etc. Bkwrmgrl1 (talk) 18:40, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  original research 

message: I'd like to add a link like:
*Free to read on a cell phone - Autobiography of Cellini.
to the 'External Links'section. This links to his autobiography that you can download to read on a cell phone. I have read quite a few from this site and got a lot of value out being able to read the PD texts away from the PC - I found Cellini's autobiography particularly entertaining and interesting.
The text is Public Domain in the US, just like Project Gutenberg, it is packaged with the reader and available under a creative commons licence (share if (attribution, non-commercial, no derivative) ). The site is non-commercial without registration, subscription, or advertising. The text is packaged together with the reader as a java program that runs on cell phones, this is a way for people to access the authors work that adds to the range in the existing external links (hopefully translating to more reading going on).
I checked WP:EL and the link seems appropriate:
* What should be linked: '...should link to a site hosting a copy of the work if none of the "Links normally to be avoided" criteria apply.'
* Links normally to be avoided: it seems only #8 might apply; 'Direct links to documents that require external applications (such as Flash or Java) to view the relevant content...'. The site lets you download java programs that only run on a J2ME environment, this means most/all current cell phones. So although they are limited to being read on a phone they do add an access method to all the others in the existing External Links, in the same way that LibriVox adds a format but requires an mp3 player.
Filomath 13:20, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposed new external link 

message: Parts of the article read like someone's stilted attempts to argue that Cellini was homosexual. Phrases like "His writings are more highly descriptive of the men in his life than of the women" presented as "proof" are plain apologetics and completely ignore the context of Cellini's life and Renaissance attitudes towards women. Can it be either cleaned out, or given a better treatment?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.139.104.108 (talk) 09:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: I've asked the WP:LGBT project to weigh in on the matter of categorizing Cellini's sexual orientation. Flyer22 (talk) 22:01, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Private life

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replies: text: This problem is not going away. Unregistered IP user repeatedly removing text with no justification. Can we get some page protection please to avoid this becoming an edit war situation? Thanks Contaldo80 (talk) 08:27, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page protection 

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