John Addington Symonds translated the sonnets of two Italian masters into rhymed English for the first time. Michelangelo writes of love, beauty, sculpture, age and the hope of heaven, including poems to Dante and to his friends; the philosopher Tommaso Campanella, who spent decades in prison, writes sonnets of reason and faith. Notes on both poets follow the poems.
A rare chance to read the greatest artist of the Renaissance as a poet, in a translator’s careful verse. Download the free EPUB.