# Sonnets and madrigals of Michelangelo Buonarroti Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Newell, William Wells, 1839-1907 [Translator] Genre: Category: Poetry Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73109 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sonnets+and+madrigals+of+Michelangelo+Buonarroti+Michelangelo+Buonarroti&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Michelangelo, who considered himself as primarily sculptor, afterwards painter, disclaimed the character of poet by profession. He was nevertheless prolific in verse; the pieces which survive, in number more than two hundred, probably represent only a small part of his activity in this direction. These compositions are not to be considered merely as the amusement of leisure, the byplay of fancy; they represent continued meditation, frequent reworking, careful balancing of words; he worked on a sonnet or a madrigal in the same manner as on a statue, conceived with ardent imagination, undertaken with creative energy, pursued under the pressure of a superabundance of ideas, occasionally aban... ## Chapters - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-and-madrigals-of-michelangelo-buonarroti-73109/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-and-madrigals-of-michelangelo-buonarroti-73109/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-and-madrigals-of-michelangelo-buonarroti-73109/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-and-madrigals-of-michelangelo-buonarroti-73109/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-and-madrigals-of-michelangelo-buonarroti-73109/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-and-madrigals-of-michelangelo-buonarroti-73109/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sonnets-and-madrigals-of-michelangelo-buonarroti-73109/chapters/7/index.md)