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More Than A Renaissance Wide Boy

David Ekserdjian BENVENUTO CELLINI by John Pope-Hennessy Macmillan, £85 B envenuto Cellini (1500-1571) was a convicted sodomite and a triple murderer (Sir John Pope-Hennessy is......

Portraits And Disguises

Allan Massie THE ORIGINALS by William Amos Jonathan Cape, £12.95 W illiam Amos's The Originals carries the sub-title `Who's Really Who in Fic- tion'. It represents a......