# Poems and Letters

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- Authors: [Michelangelo Buonarroti](https://www.bookquiver.com/michelangelo-buonarroti)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-05-31

## Description

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here are primarily devoted to love and religion. Intense and passionate, the love poems focus on two figures: Tommaso de Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna; with the sonnets and madrigals dedicated to de Cavalieri revealing a highly charged, homoerotic fervour - previously obscured in the original versions. Michelangelo's later religious poetry moves away from his earlier wordly concerns, while his letters provide a fasicnating insight into his fanily relations and day-to-day life as a working artist. The result is a revealing picture of one of the towering figures of the Renaissance.

## Editions

### Poems and Letters

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-675-5
- Published: 2007-05-31
- Language: en_GB

### Poems and Letters

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-956-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2007-05-31
- Language: en_GB