Love Sonnets and Madrigals to Tommaso De'Cavalieri (Hardback)(English / Italian)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Love Sonnets and Madrigals to Tommaso De'Cavalieri The poems of this dual-language collection were inspired by Michelangelo's close friendship with Tommaso de'Cavalieri, a young Roman nobleman, whom Michelangelo met when he was fifty-seven and de'Cavalieri was twenty-one. The friendship that followed was enduring, with the letters and poems addressed to him by Michelangelo testifying to a remarkable love that ended only with the artist's death. Mi...
Full description- Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
- Published: 01 March 1998
- Format: Hardback 128 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Poetry | Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Essays
- ISBN 13: 9780720610406 ISBN 10: 0720610400
Full description for Love Sonnets and Madrigals to Tommaso De'Cavalieri
The poems of this dual-language collection were inspired by Michelangelo's close friendship with Tommaso de'Cavalieri, a young Roman nobleman, whom Michelangelo met when he was fifty-seven and de'Cavalieri was twenty-one. The friendship that followed was enduring, with the letters and poems addressed to him by Michelangelo testifying to a remarkable love that ended only with the artist's death. Michelangelo claimed it was chaste love, although their relationship caused much gossip and speculation. Illustrations by Michelangelo
