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Author Moroncini, Ambra

Title Michelangelo's Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages)
Contents Cover ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Foreword by Brian Cummings; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'Men must be changed by religion, not religion by men': Religious culture and spirituality in early modern Italy; I Once Rome, now false and wicked Babylon (Petrarch, Canzoniere, 138: 3); II Attempts of Church Reform in late fifteenth century Florence: Marsilio Ficino and Girolamo Savonarola; III The Lutheran message in Italy (under 'the label of Erasmus'); IV Giles of Viterbo and the Fifth Lateran Council
V Juan de Valdés and the sixteenth century Italian EvangelismNotes; 2. Vittoria Colonna: Matriarch of Italian Petrarchism and Christiancilla of the Italian Renaissance; I Vittoria è 'l nome; e ben conviensi a nata fra le vittorie (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, XXXVII, 18: 1-2); II Petrarchism and evangelism in Colonna's lyric voice; Notes; 3. Michelangelo's poetry: A religious journey from Neo-Platonism to the credo in sola fide; I Michelangelo's alleged canzoniere: still a heated debate; II Religiosity intended as love, faith and honest desire; III The 'living voice' of Savonarola
IV Servitude to sinNotes; 4. Michelangelo's poems and drawings for Vittoria Colonna: A sentiment of beauty and equally infinite grace; I A man in a woman, indeed a god (Michelangelo, 235: 1); II God's grace cannot be bought; III Michelangelo's presentation drawings for Vittoria Colonna: just gifts?; Notes; 5. Poetry and theology in Michelangelo's last frescoes; I Pictoribus atque poetis / Quidilibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas (Orazio, Ars Poetica, 9-10); II I turn to you, Lord, for no effort of mine (Michelangelo, 280: 5-6)
III The Conversion of Saul and the Crucifixion of Saint PeterNotes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Religion
SUBJECT Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 fast
Subject Poetry -- Religious aspects.
Art and literature -- Italy
Reformation -- Influence
Spirituality in literature.
Spirituality in art.
Art and literature
Reformation -- Influence
Religion
Poetry -- Religious aspects
Spirituality in art
Spirituality in literature
Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317096825
1317096827
9781317096818
1317096819