Poems and Letters

Author: Michelangelo
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004EPYS7I

Poems and Letters: Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life (Penguin Classics)

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. Get Poems and Letters literature books for free.
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 Check Poems and Letters our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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