1961 The Sonnets of Michelangelo

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase

In the original quarter paper vellum with cloth covered boards, housed in the original slipcase.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated complete.

A collection of the sonnets of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 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".

Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), a respected British poet associated with The Movement.

With an introduction by Michael Ayrton, a British painter, printmaker, sculptor, critic, broadcaster and novelist.