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From: Billy
Date: 10/23/2003
Time: 3:12:45 PM
Remote Name: 65.35.238.75
Yes I agree with you Mike, one of the best parts of Cellini's autobiography was the humor and insults. I suppose Cellini getting revenge through poetry shows a slight change in society, even though he was insulted by these people he didn't have to pick up a sword and challenge them to a duel, he could use the skills he was good at to exact revenge on them. Sometimes this could be even more degrating to the person than beating them in a duel. I mean duels were still used far beyong this time, but this proved to be a less crude way of gaining satisfaction.