Michelangelo; Elizabeth Jennings [translator]; Michael Ayrton — The Sonnets of Michelangelo

London, The Folio Society, 1961. Vellum. A smartly bound collection of the sonnets of Italian poet of the High Renaissance Michelangelo, with images of his sketches. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A collection of the sonnets of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He wrote more than three hundred sonnets and madrigals, with around sixty addressed to men – "the first significant modern corpus of love poetry from one man to another". Translated by Elizabeth Joan Jennings, a British poet. With an introduction by Michael Ayrton, a British painter, printmaker, sculptor, critic, broadcaster and novelist. In the original quarter paper vellum with cloth covered boards. Externally, excellent. Original paper covered slip case is very smart with light wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Michelangelo. Fine .