Michael Angelo Buonarroti / With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda

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Michael Angelo Buonarroti
By Charles Holroyd,
Keeper of the National Gallery of British Art, with
Translations of the Life of the Master by His Scholar,
Ascanio
Condivi,
and
Three
Dialogues
from
the
Portuguese by Francisco d'Ollanda
London
Duckworth and Company
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1903
Frontispiece

MICHAEL ANGELO
From an early proof of the engraving by
GIULIO BONASONI
(In the Print Room of the British Museum)
Contents
Preface
Illustrations
PART I
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
PART II
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

APPENDIX

FIRST DIALOGUE

SECOND DIALOGUE

THIRD DIALOGUE

THE WORKS OF MICHAEL ANGELO

A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL BOOKS CONSULTED BY THE

AUTHOR

ERRATUM

INDEX

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Preface

Of all the many lives of Michael Angelo that have been written, that by his friend and pupil, Ascanio Condivi, is the most valuable. For not only is it a contemporary record, like the lives inserted by Giorgio Vasari in the two editions of his famous book, "The Lives of the Most

Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects," published in

Florence in 1550 and 1568; but Condivi's work has almost the authority of an autobiography, many phrases are in the same words, as certain letters in the hand of Michael

Angelo still in existence, especially those relating to the

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