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Description of  The Complete Poems of Michelangelo: Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library)

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 Michelangelos poems. These translations illuminated the subtleties of both the source and target language, giving Michelangelos verse a freshness, a depth, and an inventiveness that time has not been able to obscure. Read more