Michelangelo Buonarroti, "The Complete Poems of Michelangelo: Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation "
English | ISBN: 1487543611 | 2023 | 348 pages | PDF | 695 KB
English | ISBN: 1487543611 | 2023 | 348 pages | PDF | 695 KB
Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature.
In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered the first English translations of the complete corpus of Michelangelo’s poems. These translations illuminated the subtleties of both the source and target language, giving Michelangelo’s verse a freshness, a depth, and an inventiveness that time has not been able to obscure.
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