Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library #: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

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This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani' s classic translation of Michelangelo' s poetry. Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature. In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered the first English translations of the complete corpus of Michelangelo' s poems. These translations illuminated the subtleties of both the source and target language, giving Michelangelo' s verse a freshness, a depth, and an inventiveness that time has not been able to obscure. The Complete Poems of Michelangelo reproduces Tusiani' s masterful translation. In addition to Tusiani' s introduction and translations, this new edition contains Michelangelo' s original Italian poetry, a chronology of his life and works, a biographical profile of Tusiani, and an interview with Tusiani exploring his musings on classic literature and the subtle art of translation. The Complete Poems of Michelangelo sheds light on Tusiani' s many exceptional accomplishments during his long and prolific life as a scholar, poet, translator, and artist.