The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

by John Addington Symonds

Overview

The Buonarroti Simoni, to whom Michelangelo belonged, were a Florentine family of ancient burgher nobility. Their arms appear to have been originally "azure two bends or." To this coat was added "a label of four points gules inclosing three fleur-de-lys or." That augmentation, adopted from the shield of Charles of Anjou, occurs upon the scutcheons of many Guelf houses and cities. In the case of the Florentine Simoni, it may be ascribed to the period when Buonarrota di Simone Simoni held office as a captain of the Guelf party (1392). Such, then, was the paternal coat borne by the subject of this Memoir. His brother Buonarroto received a further augmentation in 1515 from Leo X., to wit: "upon a chief or, a pellet azure charged with fleur-de-lys or, between the capital letters L. and X." At the same time he was created Count Palatine. The old and simple bearing of the two bends was then crowded down into the extreme base of the shield, while the Angevine label found room beneath the chief.
According to a vague tradition, the Simoni drew their blood from the high and puissant Counts of Canossa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788892561601
Publisher:	Simone Vannini
Publication date:	03/04/2016
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About the Author

John Addington Symonds (1840-93) was a major figure in Renaissance studies and in the history of gay rights. He was the author of numerous books on criticism and polemics, including Renaissance in Italy and his classic translation of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini. Creighton E. Gilbert is Professor of History of Art at Yale University. He is the author of the Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo and Michelangelo: On and Off the Sistine Ceiling.

Table of Contents

Chapter X.37
	On Michelangelo as Architect	1
Chapter XI.
	Final Settlement in Rome
	Paul III
	The Last Judgment and the Paoline Chapel
	The Tomb of Julius 1535-1542
Chapter XII.92
	Vittoria Colonna and tommaso Cavalieri
	Michelangelo as Poet and Man of Feeling
Chapter XIII.180
	Michelangelo Appointed architect-in-Chief at the Vatican
	History of S. Peter's 1542-1557
Chapter XIV.245
	Last Years of Life
	Michelangelo's Portraits
	Illnesses of Old Age 1557-1564
Chapter XV.317
	Death at Rome
	Burial and Obsequies at Florence
	Anecdotes
	Estimate of Michelangelo as Man and Artist
	Pedigree of the Buonarroti Simoni Family
	Appendix	375
	Replies to Criticism	408
	Index	415

Editorial Reviews

"Scholars and students can learn much from a careful reading of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century research, the first modern biography of this famous artist. . . . Symonds's biography stands on its own as a solid, readable, compelling, and appropriate reading for the twenty-first century."—Sixteenth Century Journal

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