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The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
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Michelangelo studied and wrote poetry throughout his life, and his finest literary efforts are allied with the masterwoks of his visual art, and this translation captures the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both Michelangelo's language and his poetic temperament. The text gives a glimpse into one of the most fascinating minds in the history of art, as Michelangelo laboured in the Sistine Chapel he composed a series of passionate love sonnets and while struggling, near the end of his life, to complete his final "Pieta" he worked at religious poems anguished in their fervour.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #470177 in Books
- Published on: 2000-05-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
Customer Reviews
A splendid poet, but better translated elsewhere. . .
How can us mere mortals quibble with the creature of nature that was Michelangelo?!? I simply want to alert poetry fans to a book that I very highly esteem, and that I think edges the Nims' version out as a translation: check out Sidney Alexander's edition of the "Complete Poems," which won an award for best translation of the year! Nims is good, but Alexander is simply better!
