A Troubled Genius: The Life, Art, Love, and Poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Thrown into a world riddled with exuberant artistic ingenuity coupled with social turmoil and unrest, was a man who would forever be regarded as one of the most creative geniuses ever to walk the earth. Michelangelo Buonarroti, born in 1475 in Tuscany, initiated a period of innovative creation in art that was unprecedented in human history. This “Renaissance Man” was schooled in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and writing, areas in which he quickly formed his own stylistic niche. Not only did he revolutionize the world of art, but his genius also spread into the realm of poetry, in which many of the innermost workings of his mind are revealed. It is clear from ...

... by a sense of humility and desolation, possibly driven by his fear of damnation and acceptance of the proximity of death. The great attraction of Michelangelo’s poems is that they transform the readers into spectators of his struggle, that of a powerful character looking to adorn and attune itself, of a forbidding passion yearning to be acquiescent, sweet, and contemplative. The unique nature of his work comes as a direct consequence of the informality of his poetry. These songs and sonnets, often written down in unusual circumstances, some even appearing on the margins of his sketches, tend to capture some salient sentiment or fleeting notion as it passed. The reader is therefore given

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