WorkMichelangelo Buonarroti
Rime (Michelangelo's sonnets; first posthumous collected ed
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) · 1623, posthumous publication of poems
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“To-day, on reading over some of the sonnets of Michel Angelo, I felt them more than usual.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
“Poeta, / Dimmi di grazia Amor se gli / occhi miei / veggono 'l ver della beltà / ch'io miro [...] Poscia ch'appresso ha / l'arte intera e diva [...] Molto diletta al gusto intero e sano [...] Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto / Ch'un marmo solo in sé non circonscriva [...] Non vider gli occhi miei cosa mortale [...] Giunto è già il corso della vita mia, / Con tempestoso mar per fragil barca”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.
Fuller transcribes five sonnets or poems by Michelangelo across pp. 98–108: (1) p. 98–99: 'Dimmi di grazia Amor…' (a madrigal on the beauty seen in the beloved's eyes); (2) p. 100: 'Poscia ch'appresso ha / l'arte intera e diva…' (sonnet on the artist and his muse, with editorial note identifying it as 'Michelangelo Buonarroti's sonnet to Vittoria Colonna'); (3) p. 102: 'Molto diletta al gusto intero e sano…' (sonnet on the work of art and its survival in memory); (4) p. 104: 'Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto…' (famous sonnet on the sculptor and the ideal form hidden in marble, addressed to a noble lady — likely Vittoria Colonna); (5) p. 106: 'Non vider gli occhi miei cosa mortale…' (spiritual sonnet on celestial love); and (6) p. 108: 'Giunto è già il corso della vita mia…' (Michelangelo's late penitential sonnet, identified in context as his last written, said to Vasari). Also transcribed is a letter by Michelangelo to Benedetto Varchi (pp. 93–96) and references to his dissertation on love before the Accademia della Crusca (p. 97).