#112 The Poetry of Michelangelo, Between Word and Image: A Conversation with Sarah Rolfe Prodan
- paola50122
- Oct 21
- 2 min read
Saturday, December 6th Live on Zoom
6pm London, 7pm Florence, 10am Los Angeles, 1pm New York
Revered as one of the greatest artists in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti lived an extraordinarily long and productive life in a period marked by peace and war, religious change, and political upheaval. In addition to his sculptures, paintings, drawings, architectural designs, and a vast and diverse collection of letters, personal notes, documents, and contracts, the artist left behind a rich and eclectic corpus of poetry. The verses he composed reveal and reflect intriguing facets of his personal, creative, and intellectual life as well as the world of 16th century Italy. In this presentation by scholar Sarah Rolfe Prodan, we will follow Michelangelo and his pen on a journey from the comic to the serious, from the grotesque to the sublime. Examining his poetry and his pages, we will explore the place and character of love, beauty, art, and friendship in Michelangelo’s work and in his world.
Sarah Rolfe Prodan is Assistant Professor of French and Italian and William H. & Frances Green Faculty Fellow in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, California. A scholar of early modern Italy, her research centers on the lyric and on relations among cultural forms, philosophy, and religion in the period. Her publications include the award-winning monograph Michelangelo’s Christian Mysticism: Spirituality, Poetry and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and the co-edited volume Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe: Contexts, Concepts, and Expressions (Toronto: CRRS, 2014). Her current book project on poetics of piety in early modern Italy considers the ways in which male and female poets of the introspective devotional lyric engaged the word in text, image, and imagination in the 16th century.
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