Michelangelo: Poems and Letters: Selections, with 1550 Vasari Life

By Michelangelo Buonarroti

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140449566
• ISBN13: 9780140449563
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher