The Agony and the Ecstasy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Irving Stone
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Biographical
- Time of Work: 1487-1564
- Setting: Italy, particularly Florence and Rome
- 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
Characters Discussed
Michelangelo Buonarroti (mi-kehl- AN-gehl-oh bwon-ah-ROH-tee), a skinny, unsociable thirteen-year-old who, as the action of the novel begins, wishes he could redraft his facial features with a crayon. He reflects on the death of his mother when he was only six years old and his consequent loneliness and hunger for love. First trained as a stonecutter and then sent away to school for three years, young Michelangelo prefers drawing to the study of Latin and Greek. It is not until he becomes a student at the Medici sculpture garden at the age of fourteen,...
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