Poems and Letters

Poems and Letters
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Publisher: ePenguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007-05-31
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

The iconic Renaissance painter and sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti was also a prolific and gifted poet. This groundbreaking collection presents verses, intense and passionate, that capture Michelangelo's eroticism and spirituality, alongside letters that provide fascinating insight into his family relations and day-to-day life as a working artist. The result is a revealing portrait of a towering figure of the Renaissance. --Penguin Press.

The Poetry of Michelangelo

The Poetry of Michelangelo
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780300055092

A bilingual edition of the more than 300 sonnets, madrigals and other poems produced by Michelangelo over his long career. The poems reveal much of the artist's inner feelings about such universal themes as love, death and redemption.

Michelangelo, Life, Letters, and Poetry

Michelangelo, Life, Letters, and Poetry
Author: George Bull
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999
Genre: Artists
ISBN: 9780192837707

The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many of them to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is accompanied by the "Life" of the great artist written by his pupil Ascanio Condivi.

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Publisher: Modern Romance Classics
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1961
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

New translations by Joseph Tusiani of Michelangelo’s little-known but highly memorable verse.

Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing

Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing
Author: Deborah Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521761409

Deborah Parker examines Michelangelo's use of language in his correspondence as a means of understanding the creative process of this extraordinary artist.

Sonnets for Michelangelo

Sonnets for Michelangelo
Author: Vittoria Colonna
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0226113930

The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time. Hailed by the generation's leading male literati as an equal, she was praised both for her impeccable command of Petrarchan style and for the unimpeachable chastity and piety of the persona she promoted through her literary works. This book presents for the very first time a body of Colonna's verse that reveals much about her poetic aims and outlook, while also casting new light on one of the most famous friendships of the age. Sonnets for Michelangelo, originally presented in manuscript form to her close friend Michelangelo Buonarroti as a personal gift, illustrates the striking beauty and originality of Colonna's mature lyric voice and distinguishes her as a poetic innovator who would be widely imitated by female writers in Italy and Europe in the sixteenth century. After three centuries of relative neglect, this new edition promises to restore Colonna to her rightful place at the forefront of female cultural production in the Renaissance.

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Author: Michelangelo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2000-04-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780226080307

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