The Agony and the Ecstasy (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Irving Stone
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Plot: Biographical novel
- Time of Work: 1487-1564
- Setting: Italy, especially Florence and Rome
- Principal Characters: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Lodovico di Lionardo Buonarroti Simoni, Lorenzo de’ Medici, Il Magnifico, Contessina de’ Medici, Clarissa Saffi, Girolamo Savonarola, Vittoria Colonna, Tommaso de Cavalieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Bertoldo
- Genres: Long fiction, Biographical fiction
- Subjects: Art or artists, Painting or painters, Fifteenth century, Sixteenth century, Italy or Italians, Popes or papacy, Renaissance, Sculpting or sculptors
- Locales: Florence, Italy, Rome, Italy
The Novel
The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel, spans most of Michelangelo’s life: It begins with him as a twelve-year-old and concludes with his death approximately eighty years later. Although Stone covers most of Michelangelo’s life, he seems most concerned with Michelangelo’s apprenticeship and early work; when Michelangelo reaches sixty, approximately two-thirds of his lifetime, the novel is practically completed. Struggle appears to be more interesting than success. Because of the mass of details, many gleaned from previously untranslated letters...
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