Michelangelo called himself a sculptor first, yet he left more than two hundred poems, worked over as carefully as marble. William Wells Newell sets the Italian sonnets, epigrams and madrigals beside his English verse translations, with an essay on Michelangelo as poet and notes on the people and occasions behind the poems, among them his love for Vittoria Colonna.
A window into the inner life of a great artist, for lovers of the Renaissance and of the sonnet. Download the free EPUB.