Letture interlinguistiche.

Firenze, Franco Cesati Edizioni 2001, cm.16x24, pp.337, brossura Coll.Linguistica e Critica Letteraria. Nuova Serie,4. Gabriella Cartago, in questo corposo volume, indaga la lingua delle arti e degli artisti prendendo le mosse dalla lingua di Cesare Beccaria (Dei delitti e delle pene), quindi di un letterario, proseguendo l’indagine con Pietro Verri e «Il Caffè» sino allo studio di artisti come Canova, Palladio e Vincenzo Scamozzi, passati sotto la lente d’ingrandimento della lingua piuttosto che delle opere d’arte maggiormente note. Lo studio si conclude con un’incursione nel mondo della canzone italiana: cantautori, canzoni d’autore e voci della popular music nella lessicografia non specializzata; e soprattutto Pontelandolfo degli Stormy Six.

Con una lettera aperta di Corrado Marsan. A cura di Zena Checci Fettucciari. Firenze, Edizioni del Giornale di Bordo 1975, cm.17,5x25, pp.160 ill.bn. legatura editoriale, sopraccoperta figurata. Edizione numerata esemplare n.548.

Direzione di Luigi Carluccio , a cura di Sandra Furlotti Rebeschak. Torino, Edizioni Giulio Bolaffi 1966, cm.22,5x25, pp.710, ill.bn. legatura editoriale, copertina figurata a colori. Cofanetto.

Manoscritto inedito di proprietà della città di Nantes. Edizione a cura di Christian Robin. Torino, Mursia 1989, cm.18x27,5, pp.206, ill. legatura ed.in tutta tela, titoli e fregi in oro e a colori al dorso e ai piatti, con impressioni a sbalzo. Tagli oro. Coll. Hetzel,16.

Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence. University of Pennsylvania Press 2002, 2 voll. cm.14,5x22,5, pp.470,448, The artistic genius of Michelangelo (1475-1564) is beyond question. One the most important figures in the history of art, his monumental paintings in the Sistine Chapel, his sculpture David in Florence, and his Pietà at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome are among the greatest human achievements of all time and remain the most visited and admired works of art in the world. Michelangelo's life has been the subject of many biographies over the centuries, but it was not until the appearance of John Addington Symonds's The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, in 1893, that a biographer had complete access to the artist's family archives. The Buonarroti archives were to be available to the public with the passing of the last family member, but even when that event occurred, in 1858, material from the archives remained closely guarded and only fragments emerged through the hands of family friends. The Italian government, predisposed to Symonds for his impeccable scholarship of Renaissance art, gave Symonds full access to the Buonarroti archives in the 1880s, the first independent scholar so honored. With the ability to consult the massive amount of material in the archives, Symonds produced the first documented, and considered by many still to be the best, biography of Michelangelo. Symonds's expertise as a historian and critic gives added depth to this biography, and it is here that the public first learned that translations of Michelangelo's poetry had been altered to opaque the artist's sexuality. Yet this great work, the last of Symonds's life, has largely been forgotten by students of Michelangelo. In this new edition, the first in more than fifty years, preeminent art historian Creighton E. Gilbert reintroduces Symonds's masterful study of Michelangelo to a new audience through a discussion of the historical context in which the biography appeared, a biographical sketch of Symonds, an openly gay man who worked rigorously to evaluate and promote the contributions of gay artists and scholars to mainstream life, and concludes with an appreciation of The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, for its scholarly and literary merits, as an account of the most brilliant painter and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance.