The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti - Softcover

Symonds, John Addington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1410200558 ISBN 13: 9781410200556

Publisher: University Press of the Pacific, 2002

Synopsis

Based on studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti family at Florence.

About this title

About the Author:

Poet, essayist, and literary historian, John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) delved into every field of the humanities, writing the celebrated "Renaissance in Italy" and publishing translations of the "Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini" and the "Sonnets of Michelangelo and Campanella;" he wrote biographies of Shelley, Sidney, and Jonson, and collaborated with Havelock Ellis on a number of projects in sexology. He is remembered for his untiring efforts to loosen the restraints on homosexuals in England, and his Memoirs are the only diary of a Victorian homosexual of his stature.

From Library Journal:

Though this originally appeared back in 1911, it is still considered to be one of the best biographies of the artist. Symonds was the first to deal frankly with Michelangelo's homosexuality and was the first scholar granted complete access to the artist's materials by the Italian government. This edition includes a new introduction by Creighton E. Gilbert, art historian and translator of Michelangelo's poems and letters, who discusses the historical context of the biography as well as Symonds's own life and his efforts to recognize the contributions of gay artists.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1410200558
• ISBN 13: 9781410200556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 556