Michelangelo on Parnassus : : the reception of the Poems among writers / / Gandolfo Cascio ; translated by Mike Carlos.

"Michelangelo wrote the Poems to directly confront themes to which as an artist he could not give the type of expression that he wished. To do so, he chose harsh language, which was distant from the transparent idiom of the Cinquecento. Critics have generally been cautious, often hostile, towar...

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Superior document:Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Series:Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
Physical Description:1 online resource (265 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Conversations among writers
  • The Cinquecento. Responding in verse
  • The prose writers
  • Michelangelo on Parnassus
  • From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The first edition
  • Beyond Italy
  • The twentieth century: critical reception. Dante, Petrarch and Michelangelo
  • For the quincentenary
  • Anthologies between the two millennia
  • Seductions
  • The twentieth century: creative reception. The strong poets
  • Distillations
  • Translations. Translations by poets
  • The Poems in music
  • Portraits as a poet.