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Ca 1905 Sonnets Michael Angelo Buonarroti Symonds Renaissance Luxurious Edition
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti By Michael Angelo BuonarrotiTranslated by John Addington Symonds
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These love sonnets are written by Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance to his gay lover Tommaso dei Cavalieri. The openly homoerotic nature of the poetry was a source of discomfort to later generations. Michelangelo’s grandnephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, published the poems in 1623 with the gender of pronouns changed, and it was not until John Addington Symonds translated them into English in 1893 that the original genders were restored.
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Venice, S. Rosen, early 20th century.
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Pp.: 127 with illustrations.Size: 17 x 9,5 cm.
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Binding: Original luxurious leather binding, blindtamped cover panel, top spine cover extreme damaged, signs of wear along the edges. Condition: Tanned paper, uncut.
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