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The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) is a biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by American author Irving Stone. Stone lived in Italy for years visiting many of the locations in Rome and Florence, worked in marble quarries, and apprenticed himself to a marble sculptor. A primary... read more
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- Michelangelo Buonarroti: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni<1> (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer.
- Leonardo da Vinci: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.<1> He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.<2
- Lorenzo de' Medici: (January 1, 1449 – April 9, 1492) was an Italian statesman and de facto<1> ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets.
- Girolamo Savonarola: (21 September 1452, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna – 23 May 1498, Florence) was an Italian Dominican friar and an influential contributor to the politics of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for his book burning, destruction of what he considered immoral art, and his perception of what he thought the Renaissance — birthed in his Florence and in its first trimester — ought to become.
- Contessina de' Medici: Daughter od Lorenzo de'Medici and early love of Michaelangelo
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“Time was not a mountain but a river; it changed its rate of flow as well as its course”
First Sentence edit
He sat before the mirror of the second-floor bedroom sketching his lean cheeks with their high bone ridges, the flat broad forehead, and ears too far back on the head, the dark hair curling forward in thatches, the amber-colored eyes wide-set but heavy-lidded.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Irving Stone: Biographical Novels. (standard series)
This is book 223 of 214 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Caine Mutiny.
This is book 1 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1961. (authoritative list)
Followed by Franny and Zooey.
This is book 9 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1962. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Prize, and followed by The Reivers.
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- Irving Stone (Author)
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- California Book Award (1961: Fiction, Silver)
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- Dewey: 813.52
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Reading Level: Young AdultsMay be too much for some young adults, in terms of length and complexity
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