The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of

New translations by Joseph Tusiani of Michelangelo’s little-known but highly memorable verse.

A bilingual edition of the more than 300 sonnets, madrigals and other poems produced by Michelangelo over his long career. The poems reveal much of the artist's

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.