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Crime and Punishment—Blood and Bronze
6/10 Cellini is imprisoned for over a year in Rome, enduring various attempts on his life.
The Scorpion—Blood and Bronze
5/10 Cellini roams between the great Italian courts, making art and causing trouble.
Death in Florence—Blood and Bronze
4/10 On his return to Florence, Cellini experiences the horrors of the plague.
Storming the Capitol—Blood and Bronze
3/10 Having built a career as a goldsmith, Cellini becomes a soldier during the Sack of Rome.
Overture—Blood and Bronze
2/10 Cellini’s early years are spent training as a musician.
A Portrait of the Artist—Blood and Bronze
1/10 Professor Jerry Brotton explores the darker side of the Italian Renaissance.
There's No Story There—Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf
5/5 Lisa Mullen looks at the depiction of war-time factory workers in a novel by Inez Holden.
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in the novel by Inez Holden
Closer—Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf
4/5 Diarmuid Hester looks at the George Miles Cycle from punk radical Dennis Cooper.
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
4/5 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper
