The Agony And The Ecstasy Irving Stone

Name: The Agony And The Ecstasy By Irving Stone
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The Agony And The Ecstasy by Irving Stone

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The Agony And The Ecstasy by Irving Stone

Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo.

His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola.

His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna.

His genius: a God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known.

Michelangelo Buonarotti, creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, architect of the dome of St Peter's, lives once more in the tempestuous, powerful pages of Irving Stone's marvellous book.

About Irving Stone

Irving Stone was born in San Francisco in 1903 and received his B. A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1923 and his Master's degree from the University of Southern California in 1924. He wrote plays and supported himself by writing detective stories until the publication of Lust for Life, his first novel, in 1934, Stone called his work 'bio-history' and based his novels on meticulous and extensive research into the lives of the historical characters at the heart of his novels. He married his editor, Jean Factor, in 1934. He founded the Academy of American Poets in 1962. He died in Los Angeles in 1989.

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Sku

GOR001313875

ISBN 13

9780099416272

ISBN 10

0099416271

Title

The Agony And The Ecstasy by Irving Stone

Author

Irving Stone

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Cornerstone

Year published

1990-01-01

Number of pages

784

Prizes

N/A

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