During his career, Michelangelo produced not only works of painting, sculpture, and architecture but also over 300 sonnets, madrigals and other poems. The poems are not the product of a highly accomplished hand, but they are invaluable for what they reveal of the artist's innermost feelings about such universal themes as love, death, and redemption and also about more mundane matters, such as the tribulations of painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. This book, a bilingual edition of Michelangelo's complete poetic output, is based on the definitive Girardi dating of the poems. Annotations and detailed textual commentary give background data essential for understanding Michelangelo's references. An introduction, which incorporates Michelangelo scholarship, includes a biographical sketch of the artist, a critical examination of the themes, content, style, and sources of his poetry, and a review of the criticism devoted to his poems. The Italian original of each poem appears with the translation, and several paintings and drawings that are relevant to the poems are reproduced.

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Michelangelo's renown as a sculptor and painter is well known, but the extent of his abilities as a poet is less familiar--though it is equally important in understanding his life and thought. Saslow has done a great service in providing a bilingual edition of Michelangelo's complete Rime , some 300 sonnets, madrigals, and other poems and fragments. Saslow does not try to capture the rhyme and ambiguous grammar of the original, aiming instead for clarity, and discussing textual difficulties and variant readings in his thorough notes. He also includes a lucid and balanced discussion of Michelangelo's life and art, especially his homosexuality, as well as the central themes and literary features of his poetry.
- T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
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