The reference is to Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571), whose well-known autobiography describes both his complicated personal affairs - some of which might fall within the category of revelling - and his work as an artist. He gives an account in the autobiography of his trip to Rome to persuade Michelangelo to return to Florence. His Perseus was commissioned by Duke Cosimo de' Medici for the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, to be seen with, and perhaps to counter the republican imagery of, the David of Michelangelo and the Judith and Holofernes of Donatello. Cellini said that he could promise to make his work three times better than his wax model of the Perseus which Duke Cosimo said would be finer than the work of Michelangelo or Donatello, and that he would deliver more than he promised ( Cellini, Life, p.330).