Description
| Product ID: | 9780140449563 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Poems and Letters |
| Subtitle: | Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life |
| Authors: | Author: Michelangelo |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Italy, c 1500 to c 1600 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. This is a collection of verses which are devoted to love and religion. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-05-31 |