ITALIAN 42A Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Salt Cellar, Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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The characteristic that best describes the autobiography is hyperbole. He fights for family amongst other things. He emphasizes how the autobiography is a story about his life and not really about the historical events. Even when describing significant events he focuses on himself. The first object that he was commissioned for was the salt cellar. It was about half a cubit in size and meant for a salt-cellar. It was this salt-cellar that earned me my first money in rome. He"s been talking about what makes art valuable for like 15 minutes and he"s been showing pieces of art and asking us how much he thinks they are haha. Is it true that god gives every man what he deserves ? (p. 59); compare with some of boccaccio"s novelle. Benvenuto (or one of his men) kills the constable of bourbon, leader of the occupying army (p. 60)
