CELLE

(52° 38’ N., 10° 3’ E.), town, on Aller, Hanover, Pru ia; manufactures tobacco, woolen yarn, etc. Pop. 22,000. Nothing but his famous and inimitable Autobiography can do justice to his many-sidedne . Ho was bd. at Florence; 8. Of a musical instrument maker; appee aticod to a goldsmith; then took up ‘fiute-playing, and became one of the ‘Pope’s court musicians. He enjoyed considerable patronage as a metal-worker under Clement VII., but his penchant for brawling led to his constant change of domicile, and he lived at Siena, Pisa, ‘Rome, and Florence, changing his pro- -fe ion as often as his place of residence. Amongst other exploits he claimed to have shot the Constable de Bourbon with his own hand during the attack m Rome, 1527. Perhaps his greatest “work as sculptor is the bronze group, Perseus holding the head of Medusa, the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.