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9780140449563

Michelangelo Poems and Letters : Selections, with 1550 Vasari Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780140449563

  • ISBN10:

    0140449566

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-12-18
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here are primarily devoted to love and religion. Intense and passionate, the love poems focus on two figures: Tommaso de Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna; with the sonnets and madrigals dedicated to de Cavalieri revealing a highly charged, homoerotic fervour - previously obscured in the original versions. Michelangelo's later religious poetry moves away from his earlier wordly concerns, while his letters provide a fasicnating insight into his fanily relations and day-to-day life as a working artist. The result is a revealing picture of one of the towering figures of the Renaissance.

Author Biography

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-û1564) was a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet of the Italian Renaissance. He exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general.
Anthony Mortimer is a former visiting professor of comparative literature at the University of Lausanne and visiting research fellow at Merton College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vii
Chronologyp. viii
Introductionp. xiii
Further Readingp. xxxvii
A Note on the Textsp. xi
Poemsp. 1
Lettersp. 73
Giorgio Vasari 'Life of Michelangelo' (1550)p. 149
The Buonarroti Familyp. 186
The Popes, the della Rovere and the Medicip. 187
Notesp. 189
Index of First Linesp. 234
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