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The following links will bring you outside of "Blupete's Website" -- So, Now is a good time, so that you might readily return to Blupete, to book mark "Blupete's Website". BOOKS: Biographies Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571): Cellini's Autobiography. Italian goldsmith, sculpture, and engraver, Cellini's is "one of the most interesting autobiographies ever written ..." (Chambers.) He lived alternatively, for some years, between Florence and Rome and was conected with to the most influential individuals of the age. Interestingly, Chambers informs us that Cellini was as "expert with sword and dagger as with his goldsmith's tools." Darwin, Charles (1809-82): Autobiography. (Project Gutenberg) Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90): Franklin's Autobiography (earlyamerica.com) Johnson, Samuel (1709-84): Boswell's Life of ... (Project Gutenberg) Marx, Karl (1818-83): An Essay On Karl Marx by Harold Laski. Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873): Mill's Autobiography (McMaster) Nelson, Horatio (1758-1805): Southey's, The Life of Nelson (Project Gutenberg) Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910): See Eminent Victorians By Lytton Strachey. Plato (427-348 BC): See Emerson's Representative Men. Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832): The Life of Scott by J. G. Lockhart. Smith, Adam (1723-1790): The Biography of Smith by Dugald Stewart. Shakspeare (1564-1616): See Emerson's Representative Men. Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-94): Robert Louis Stevenson by Walter Raleigh. (Project Gutenberg) Telford, Thomas (1757-1834): The Life of Thomas Telford By Samuel Smiles (Project Gutenberg) Washington, George (1732-1799): George Washington (David Ramsay @ earlyamerica.com) Watt, James (1736-1819): The Life of James Watt by Andrew Carnegie. PLATFORMS TO THE GREAT BIOGRAPHIES Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online For many years I have regularly consulted the DCB. This many volumed work done by scholarly people occupies a whole shelf in my library: -- and now, it's online! Wonderful. NOTE: Links checked in December, 2023 www.blupete.com