The complete online text of The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds.

In his 1878 biography of the English Romantic poet, John Addington Symonds wrote that the young Percy Bysshe Shelley's intellect and aesthetic sensibilities "sustained him at a perilous height above the ... race of man." The same could well be written of...

As he lay dying in a Roman hotel room in April 1893, John Addington Symonds had good reason to be proud of his literary life. He had left behind a long and impressive list of works: translations, biographies, poetry, criticism, and a significant seven-vo...

Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane. La Fiera. Seconda redazione. Prefazione, introduzione, testo critico e note a cura di Olimpia Pelosi. Napoli: Liguori, 2003. La Fiera di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (1568-1646) e una commedia allegorica in cui l'autore si prefigge di ammaestrare dilettando....

In a find worthy of Antiques Roadshow, an art historian recently scored the equivalent of discovering lost treasure in a cardboard box. While completing a sabbatical at the Smithsonian's CooperHewitt National Design Museum in New York this April, director of the National...