Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems
NO mortal thing enthralled these longing eyes
When perfect peace in thy fair face I found;
But far within, where all is holy ground,
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I feel as lit by fire a cold countenance
That burns me from afar and keeps itself ice-chill;
A strength I feel two shapely arms to fill
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D' altrui pietoso.
Kind to the world, but to itself unkind,
A worm is born, that dying noiselessly
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After trying many years, and then
near death, the able man may know
an image living in the alpine stone.
If at all, the high and new come slowly,
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I'VE grown a goitre by dwelling in this den -
As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy,
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CHOICE soul, in whom, as in a glass, we see,
Mirrored in thy pure form and delicate,
What beauties heaven and nature can create,
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WHAT should be said of him cannot be said;
By too great splendor is his name attended;
To blame is easier than those who him offended,
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TOO much good luck no less than misery
May kill a man condemned to mortal pain,
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NOW hath my life across a stormy sea
Like a frail bark reached that wide port where all
Are bidden, ere the final reckoning fall
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Spirto ben nato.
Choice soul, in whom, as in a glass, we see,
Mirrored in thy pure form and delicate,
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Di morte certo.
My death must come; but when, I do not know:
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If one chaste love, if one divine compassion,
If one destiny is equal for two lovers,
If one hard fate of the one is felt by the other,
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Non vider gli occhi miei.
I saw no mortal beauty with these eyes
When perfect peace in thy fair eyes I found;
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Thou knowest, love, I know that thou dost know
That I am here more near to thee to be,
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ON THE PAINTING OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL.
I' ho già fatto un gozzo.
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Great beauty spreads a firestorm
across a thousand ardent wills
which, so dispersed, is lightly borne
but, gathered into one, may kill.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti Biography
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[1] (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of Saint Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelo's design, the dome being completed after his death with some modification. In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one"). One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.)
The Best Poem Of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Celestial Love
NO mortal thing enthralled these longing eyes
When perfect peace in thy fair face I found;
But far within, where all is holy ground,
My soul felt Love, her comrade of the skies:
For she was born with God in Paradise;
Nor all the shows of beauty shed around
This fair false world her wings to earth have bound:
Unto the Love of Loves aloft she flies.
Nay, things that suffer death, quench not the fire
Of deathless spirits; nor eternity
Serves sordid Time, that withers all things rare.
Not love but lawless impulse is desire:
That slays the soul; our love makes still more fair
Our friends on earth, fairer in death on high.
Michelangelo Buonarroti Comments
curiously, Michelangelo did not hold in high regard his poetic production, coming to call his poetry 'silly'
About 300 finished and unfinished Michelangelo's poems survive - mostly madrigals and sonnets.
''O Notte, o dolce tempo'', by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian text) O Notte, o dolce tempo, benchè nero, con pace ogn'opra sempre al fin assalta, ben vede e ben intende chi t'esalta, e chi t'onora ha l'intelletto intero. Tu mozzi e tronchi ogni stanco pensiero, che l'umid' ombra e ogni quet'appalta, e dell'infima parte alla più alta in sogno spesso porti ov'ire spero. O ombra del morir, per cui si ferma ogni miseria all'alma, al cor nemica, ultimo degli afflitti e buon rimedio, tu rendi sana nostra carn' inferma, rasciugh' i pianti e posi ogni fatica e furi a chi ben vive ogni ira e tedio
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5/1/2024 4:22:46 PM # 1.0.0.1119
I read his poetry in Latin in high school. A book full of the numbered, unnamed poems. I loved it. I have been looking for the book ever since.