Springfield powerbroker William Cellini was sentenced to a year and day in prison today for his role in corruption tied to imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Cellini, 77, a longtime ...

Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) woke one morning and noticed something odd floating over his head: a halo. It had begun appearing there, he said, while he was in a prison cell down the street from the ...

William Cellini, center, departs the federal courthouse with unidentified family members after Judge James Zagel sentenced him to 366 days in prison and a $75,000 fine Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, in ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --In an opening statement for the defense, an attorney for Illinois powerbroker William Cellini tried to distance his client from deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The Cellini trial is the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team has learned that Illinois' "King of Clout" is once again asking for special treatment from a federal judge. The story involves ex-con William Cellini, who was once a ...

This biography situates Cellini more appropriately in the transition that lies between the Renaissance and the modern era.

A federal judge sentenced former Illinois powerbroker William Cellini to a year in prison Thursday for conspiring to shake down a movie producer, capping off the last trial to stem from the ...

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Benvenuto Cellini’s Autobiography, composed between 1558 and 1566, was not the first memoir ever written, but it was the first example of that exalted subgenre, the “tell-all.” Before Cellini, ...

Anything other than a win for Benvenuto Cellini in the Chester Vase would have been disappointing, so his dominant display ...