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.

Poems and Letters (Michelangelo) (Penguin Classics)

MichelAngelo

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Classics

Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator of many Italian classics, has brought his skill and experience to bear on translating this new selection of Michelangelo's letters and poetry, as well as the Life, the biography written by Michelangelo's pupil Ascanio Condivi.

Life, Letters, and Poetry (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Porter, Peter

Bull, George

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator of many Italian classics, has brought his skill and experience to bear on translating this new selection of Michelangelo's letters and poetry, as well as the Life, the biography written by Michelangelo's pupil Ascanio Condivi. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Life, Letters, and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

There is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his devotion to poetry. Michelangelo used poetry to express what was too personal to display in sculpture or painting. John Frederick Nims has brought the entire body of Michelangelo's verse, from the artist's ardent twenties to his anguished and turbulent eighties, to life in English in this unprecedented collection. The result is a tantalizing glimpse into a most fascinating mind. "Wonderful. . . . Nims gives us Michelangelo whole: the polymorphous love sonneteer, the political allegorist, and the solitary singer of madrigals."—Kirkus Reviews "A splendid, fresh and eloquent translation. . . . Nims, an eminent poet and among the best translators of our time, conveys the full meaning and message of Michelangelo's love sonnets and religious poems in fluently rhymed, metrical forms."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch "The best so far. . . . Nims is best at capturing the sound and sense of Michelangelo's poetic vocabulary."—Choice "Surely the most compelling translations of Michelangelo currently available in English."—Ronald L. Martinez, Washington Times

University of Chicago Press

There is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his devotion to poetry. Michelangelo used poetry to express what was too personal to display in sculpture or painting. John Frederick Nims has brought the entire body of Michelangelo's verse, from the artist's ardent twenties to his anguished and turbulent eighties, to life in English in this unprecedented collection. The result is a tantalizing glimpse into a most fascinating mind. "Wonderful. . . . Nims gives us Michelangelo whole: the polymorphous love sonneteer, the political allegorist, and the solitary singer of madrigals."—Kirkus Reviews "A splendid, fresh and eloquent translation. . . . Nims, an eminent poet and among the best translators of our time, conveys the full meaning and message of Michelangelo's love sonnets and religious poems in fluently rhymed, metrical forms."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch "The best so far. . . . Nims is best at capturing the sound and sense of Michelangelo's poetic vocabulary."—Choice "Surely the most compelling translations of Michelangelo currently available in English."—Ronald L. Martinez, Washington Times

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Sonnets of Michelangelo

Routledge

THE POEMS is the only modern English prose translation of the entire corpus of Michelangelo's poetry - some 302 poems and fourty one fragments - capturing the original in vigorous modern English, with the Italian text and English translation on facing pages.

Michelangelo The Poems

Poetry

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

THE POEMS is the only modern English prose translation of the entire corpus of Michelangelo's poetry - some 302 poems and fourty one fragments - capturing the original in vigorous modern English, with the Italian text and English translation on facing pages.

Poems

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

J.M. Dent & Co

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Poems and Letters (Michelangelo) (Penguin Classics)

Life, Letters, and Poetry (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)

Life, Letters, and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

Sonnets of Michelangelo

Sonnets of Michelangelo

Michelangelo The Poems

Poems