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| Other authors / contributors: | Nims, John Frederick, 1913-1999.
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| ISBN: | 9780226080468
0226080463
0226080331
9780226080338
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (page 185).
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Michelangelo studied and wrote poetry throughout his life, frequently turning to it in times of emotional crisis or stress. His finest literary efforts are often allied with the masterworks of his visual art. As he labored in the Sistine Chapel with visions of the Last Judgment, he composed a series of passionate love sonnets. And while struggling, near the end of his life, to complete his final Pieta, he worked at religious poems anguished in their fervor. Indeed, the power of his verse seemed to grow with age, as if compensating for his diminishing physical strength." "Nims, an eminent poet in his own right, has translated the entire body of Michelangelo's poetry, from the artist's ardent twenties to his anguished and turbulent eighties."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564. Poems. English. Complete poems of Michelangelo. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©1998 9780226080338
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