Poems and Letters
Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2007
Summary
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet this 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. The sonnets and madrigals dedicated to de Cavalieri reveal a highly charged, homoerotic fervour, previously obscured in the original versions. Mi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449566 |
| Author: | Michelangelo |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general.
Anthony Mortimer was Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Lausanne and in 1994 Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Letters (1984-85) and has also directed the inter-university troisieme cycle seminar for postgraduate students of English. He is a member of the Swiss Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Anthony Mortimer’s major interests are in Shakespeare, poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Anglo-Italian literary relations, and verse translation.
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