The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture

Note 161 — Chapter XXV · OF FIGURES MADE IN SILVER & GREATER THAN LIFE SIZE.

C. R. (Charles Robert) Ashbee translation

I am not sure whether this gives the right shade of meaning to ‘attestarsi,’ but I follow Brinckman.

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