Cellini, "Perseo"

Speranza

"I gave answer to my Duke Cosimo I de' Medici that I would willingly make him a great statue in marble or in bronze for his fine piazza."

"Cosimo I replied that, for a first essay, he would like me to produce a PERSEO. For some time he had longed for such a monument, and he begged me to begin a little model for it."