A new translation of poetry and letters from one of the most influential artists in history

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.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet of the Italian Renaissance. He exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general.
Anthony Mortimer is a former visiting professor of comparative literature at the University of Lausanne and visiting research fellow at Merton College, Oxford.

Imprint: Penguin Classics
Distributor: Penguin Group USA, Inc
Publication Date: 12-18-2007
Pages: 288
Measurements: 7.78in X 5.30in X 0.69in X 0.48lb