I, Michelangelo, the sculptor: a letter-form autobiography

Author: (Italian) Michelangelo
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book collects nearly 500 existing letters of Michelangelo, including correspondence with his family, friends, and the Pope, among others. These letters, written in moments of ease or haste, carry Michelangelo's unique passion, revealing his artistic creation under the burden of life and the pressures of his time, as well as his ordinary secular life as an ordinary person. It is a form of autobiography.