What Makes A Man?

I was thinking on Cellini- who both fascinates me and disgusts me for many reasons and I started wondering how he would hold up in modern society. True, he was a great warrior, possessed more than a normal amount of machismo, and could prove himself the equal of almost any man in almost every category of Renaissance life but there is much more to him. His greatest accomplishments, and those which ultimately stood the test of time was his art and writing.

Cellini was considered a model of manhood and was a model jeweler. How would that translate into modern society? It seems as though a lot of what made Cellini great and acclaimed in his own time would not earn him the status he achieved in his own day. He was the equivalent of an Italian rock star and he played the flute for the pope. P-diddy and Enrique Iglesias cannot play the flute- and I'm fairly certain if they did it would not be for the pope.

In a way its almost comical how so much of his greatness would be laughed at or trivialized in modern society but I still believe he would prove himself now. He conquered everything set before him and I doubt there is something in the modern world he would fail to succeed in.