Description:
This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.
Brief description:
Gianluca Rizzo is the Paul D. and Marilyn Paganucci Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Colby College.
Review Quotes:
" The Complete Poems of Michelangelo takes the reader on a unique journey to the tormented soul of 'the greatest poet of the Cinquecento.' In this elegant new edition, Joseph Tusiani's classic version lines up in the great tradition of Wordsworth, Emerson, Longfellow, Symonds, Santayana, and Newell, against which the translator claims his special right to give Michelangelo an authentic English voice."
--Igor Candido, Head of Italian, Trinity College Dublin"What a wonderful service Gianluca Rizzo has rendered by re-issuing Joseph Tusiani's classic translations! Michelangelo's brilliant sonnets, odes, and madrigals are now available to a much wider readership. It is a joy to read and reread the remarkable literary oeuvre of the sculptor of David and the painter of the Sistine Chapel!"--Marjorie Perloff, Author of Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetic
"Tusiani's masterful, invaluable translations of the complete poems of Michelangelo, which have finally been updated and reprinted in this prestigious new edition, constitute the most compelling Anglophone version of these important compositions to date."
--Philip Balma, Associate Professor of Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut