Word: buonarroti
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...prose with a glandular condition, but it often pays better than literature, as Author Irving Stone found out with such bestsellers as Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), The President's Lady (Rachel Jackson) and Love Is Eternal (Mary Todd Lincoln). In the present fictionalized life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Author Stone has transcended himself; The Agony and the Ecstasy raises blurbese to blurbissimo...
...Medici ("77 Magnifico"). There are the later duels of wills (with Pope Julius II) and skills (with Da Vinci, Bramante, Raphael). There is the unmarried Michelangelo's dutiful, lifelong support of his brothers and of a father who believed that "working with his hands" was beneath a Buonarroti's dignity. Michelangelo's possible homosexuality an iffy question for any biographer, is "skirted by Author Stone, but he fleetingly pursues the theory that Michelangelo combined the Greek pagan ideal of beauty with a profoundly Christian spirit. This will convince only those who find something specifically Christian in Michelangelo...
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...epitaph would indicate, Michelangelo Buonarroti was accepted by his contemporaries as almost superhuman. Most biographers, surveying the awesome remains of Michelangelo's genius, have decided that his contemporaries were right. Yet by doing more than human honor to the man, history has generally done less than human justice to his real achievement...
Facing Milan's quiet Piazza Buonarroti and its huge, brooding statue of Verdi, the three-story, red brick Casa now accommodates 50 men and 35 women in elegant austerity. There are still a few who remember the old maestro. Said Soprano Giannina Russ, 77, once a star at La Scala: "He was always critical. Just like Toscanini, he was never satisfied...