The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation

The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation by Saslow, James M.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780274734948.

This is the only available bilingual edition of the more than three hundred sonnets madrigals and other poems produced by Michelangelo over his long career. The poems are invaluable for what they reveal of the artists innermost feelings about such universal themes as love death and redemption. "A superb introduction to Michelangelos life a masterful bilingual presentation of his written work commentaries and an annotated bibliography. . . . A handsome volume of pure scholarship that will find a permanent place in ones library to be dipped into from time to time as a source of deep enjoyment."-Virginia Quarterly Review "For educated readers who want to know what Michelangelos poetry manages to do who want a guide through the Italian and even more through the conventions that enabled Michelangelo to write at all this is an indispensable book."-Richard Howard "The exceptionally difficult task of translating Michelangelos poetry has been accomplished with aplomb: equally successful is the no less difficult task of placing the poems within their biographical social intellectual and artistic context. Saslows annotated translation will be the standard critical edition of Michelangelos poetry."-William E. Wallace