Michelangelo (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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“The visions of the painter are perpetuated in the vault; the cares of the man in his letters,” E. H. Ramsden declares in the introduction to her edition of English translations of Michelangelo’s letters (The Letters of Michelangelo, 1963). The renowned painter and sculptor, creator of the statue of David and the epic paintings of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, also left a literary legacy. Along with his poetry, he wrote some five hundred letters which, though never intended as publishable literature, are a rich source of psychological and...
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