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The Sonnets of Michelangelo
1961959T51London: The Folio Society 1961. Vellum. Fine. 7.5" by 5". Michelangelo. A smartly bound collection of the sonnets of Italian poet of the High Renaissance Michelangelo with images of his sketches. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A collection of the sonnets of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni known mononymously as Michelangelo an Italian sculptor painter architect and poet of the High Renaissance. He wrote more than three hundred sonnets and madrigals with around sixty addressed to men "the first significant modern corpus of love poetry from one man to another". Translated by Elizabeth Joan Jennings a British poet. With an introduction by Michael Ayrton a British painter printmaker sculptor critic broadcaster and novelist. In the original quarter paper vellum with cloth covered boards. Externally excellent. Original paper covered slip case is very smart with light wear to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine The Folio Society hardcover
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