WorkMichelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo's Rime/sonnets

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) · first published 1623 in heavily edited posthumous edition by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger

InferredMichelangelo’s sonic and madrigals were first published in 1623 in a heavily edited posthumous edition by his great-nephew Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. Fuller would have known the sonnets through various nineteenth-century editions or translations.

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Documented 1845

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“To-day, on reading over some of the sonnets of Michel Angelo, I felt them more than usual.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re504 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-05, line 10342; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. "To-day, on reading over some of the sonnets of Michel Angelo" is an explicit reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

No datable encounters with Buonarroti, Michelangelo have been catalogued yet.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

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“Michelangelo alone was true to his idea of love, even when he could not hope the possession of its object.”

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.

Inferred Michelangelo’s sonic and madrigals were first published in 1623 in a heavily edited posthumous edition by his great-nephew Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. Fuller would have known the sonnets through various nineteenth-century editions or translations.