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Title:

POEMS AND LETTERS
SELECTIONS, WITH THE 1550 VASARI LIFE

By:

Michelangelo

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0140449566

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9780140449563

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

31 May, 2007

Pages:

288

Translated from:

Italian

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Synopsis:

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.

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Penguin Classics

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