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Michelangelo today is better known as the author of beautiful statues and expressive frescoes; However, few people know that the famous sculptor and artist wrote no less wonderful verses. The poetic talent of Michelangelo manifested itself fully only at the end of his life.

Some of the poems of the great master were put on music and already gained considerable popularity during his lifetime, but for the first time his sonnets and Madrigals were published only in 1623. About 300 poems by Michelangelo have survived to this day.

Portrait of Michelangelo. Khdodesbastyano del Pyombo.

Quite a little about the great master.

Michelangelo was born in 1475 in the small town of Capureza. Mother died early and his father gave him to educate the nurse’s family. In 12 years he was given to literacy first, and then painting in the artist Girlandayo. Master instructed him to copy paintings by great masters.

But he did it so skillfully that it was difficult to distinguish from the original. I had a sort of this, he became famous and accepted to the school, which was organized by the Medici for the most talented children of Florence. In this school, he took a special situation, thanks to his talent and was invited to live in The Palace of Medici. Here he gets acquainted with philosophy and literature.

I will not list his work here. We will return to them. He was the greatest sculptor and artist, architect and poet.

He had a proud and irreconcilable character, gloomy and harsh he embodied all the torment of a man-bishop. Foreignment, dissatisfaction, discord of ideal and reality.

Portrait of the work of Marcello Venus (1535)

He was never married. He said:

Art is a world and requires the whole person. I have a spouse who belongs to, and my children are my works.

His only love was Victoria Column, the Marquis of the Pescara. She arrived in Rome in 1536. She was 47 years old, she was a widow. The Marquise was a very educated woman for her time. The victor wrote poetry, was deeply interested in science, philosophy. In her salon was conducted in her salon. Living talk about modern events, science and art. Mikelangelo was accepted here as a royal guest. At that time he was already 60 years old.

Vittoria Column. Portrait of work Sebastiano del Pyombo

It is interesting that Wittoria is the only woman whose name is firmly associated with Michelangelo, whom most researchers are inclined to consider homosexual.According to the researchers of the intimate life of Michelangelo, his ardent passion for Marquis was the fruit of subconscious choice, since her holy lifestyle could not pose a threat to his homosexual preferences. “He elevated her to the pedestal, but his love for her can be called heterosexual: he called her“ man in a woman ”

Most likely it was a platonic love. Victoria was still devoted to her husband who was dead in battle, and only great friendship had only great friendship to Michelangelo.

In 1525, her husband was mortally wounded when the Massimiliano was pursued and died of his wounds in Milan in November. 35-year-old widow gathered in the monastery, where she had already entered as a secular guest, but Pope Clement VII dissuaded her

. She settled on Iskia in the family Aragon Castle (Castello Aragonese), where she remained for several years and mourned the death of her husband in a number of poems. She abandoned several offers of her hand and heart and began to create those Rime Spirituali who will become the distinctive features of her work.

Vittoria and Michelangelo at Moses, a picture of the XIX century

The artist's biographer writes:

“The love that he had for the marquise of the sand was especially great. Until now, he keeps many of her letters filled with the purest sweet feeling. He himself wrote for her many sonnets, talented and performed by sweet longing.

He, for his part, loved her in such a way that as he said, he was upset by one thing: when he came to look at her already inanimate, he kissed only her hand, and not on the forehead or face. From this death, he remained confused for a long time for a long time And as if distraught.

Michelangelo at the coffin of Wittoria columnsa kissing hand deceased. Picture of the XIX century

The biographers of the famous artist note: “The correspondence of these two wonderful people represents not only a high biographical interest, but is an excellent monument to the historical era and a rare example of a living exchange of thoughts full of mind, subtle observation and irony.

Researchers write about the sonnets dedicated to Michelangelo Wittoria: “The deliberate, forced Platonism of their relationship aggravated and brought to crystallization of the lovingly and philosophical warehouse of Michelangelovsky poetry, which reflected a large extent and the poem of the Marquis itself, which played the role of the spiritual leader of Michelangelo during the 1530s .

Their poetic “correspondence” caused the attention of contemporaries; Perhaps the most famous was the sonnet 60, which became the subject of special interpretation.

And the greatest genius will not add

A single thought to the fact that marble itself

Fraught in abundance, and only this to us

The hand is obedient to reason, it will show.

I'm waiting for joy, anxiety, does it press my heart,

The wisest, good Donna, -Vam

I owe everyone, and is heavy to me.

That my gift is not as it should be praised.

Not the power of love, not your beauty,

Or coldness, or anger, or despicable

In my restraint, I am guilty.

Then, that death with a mercy is merged

You have a heart.-but my miserable genius

To extract loving, death is capable of alone.

“Surrounded by a crowd of fans of her beauty and talents during his youth, she, in old age, was the subject of worship for her high moral virtues: they looked at her as a saint”

In anticipation of death, in 1546 she ordered herself to transfer herself from the monastery of Benedectins St. Anna in the palace of the cousin of Julia, the column, where she died on February 15, 1547 in the presence of Michelangelo at the age of 57.

On the eve of death, she wrote her last sonnet, with whom she was happy to look forward to the upcoming meeting with the Creator:

I see clouds away, accelerating, all closer
Fits. From my heart, fogs
Earthly love! on the face so that its senior
Accidentally cannot be discarded, vicious unnecessary

To date, the poetic heritage of Wittoria includes 390 poems. The stylistics of the poetry of the column is very restrained, emotional impulses are not characteristic of it, and as if it reflects the lifestyle of the poetess, which has almost struck its admirers with its almost asceticism.

IL Cieco Amor del Mondo Un Tempo Tenne.

I loved life thoughtlessly for years,

Glory was drunk like wine,
But in vain – in trouble when he saw the bottom of the life,
I came to the Creator back with tears.

And it helped. I am now writing with nails
His cross, not a simple pen,
Ink is his blood. I sing only one thing:
Burning of Christ passions.

But there is no inspiration. Parnas are powerless here,
Delos, Castalian key. seeking
Other hills, other water is addicated.

But the mountain world is closed to the deadly eyes.
I pray! Give me the light. I tremble from thirst.
Only one sign, and the lines are sparkling!

In addition, it is known about the find in the 20th century in the Vatican archives of the previously unknown manuscript belonging to Michelangelo and containing 109 dedicated sonnets written by Wittoria. These verses were first published in 2005.