1st Edition
Michelangelo's Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation
List of figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction MATTEO RESIDORI
1 ‘Men must be changed by religion, not religion by men’: Religious culture and spirituality in early modern Italy
2 Vittoria Colonna: Matriarch of Italian Petrarchism and Christiancilla of the Italian Renaissance
3 Michelangelo’s poetry: A religious journey from Neo-Platonism to the credo in sola fide
4 Michelangelo’s poems and drawings for Vittoria Colonna: A sentiment of beauty and equally infinite grace
5 Poetry and theology in Michelangelo’s last frescoes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ambra Moroncini is Tutorial Fellow and Italian Convenor at the University of Sussex, UK.
"Moroncini writes that the book ‘has aimed to contextualize Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality within the framework of the religious spirit of sixteenth century Italy [and] to shed new light on the artist’s religious beliefs and unique language of art.’ In my view, she has admirably fulfilled her aim. In the Introduction, Residori called this a ‘beautiful book’. Indeed it is."
- Stephen G. Nuske
