Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella
By Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella · Running time 02:43:31 · Anthologies, Lyric, Sonnets
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Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Michael Angelo was essentially an artist, living in the prime of the Renaissance. Campanella was a philosopher, born when the Counter-Reformation was doing all it could to blight the free thought of the sixteenth century; and when the modern spirit of exact enquiry, in a few philosophical martyrs, was opening a new stage for European science. The one devoted all his mental energies to the realisation of beauty: the other strove to ascertain truth. The one clun
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