...and he on his part so loved her that I remember hearing him say that, when he went to see her when she was dying, he lamented that he had not kissed her face as he did her hand. » Nothing can express better than these words the pure and reverent love with which Michelangelo was devoted...

...Angelo), on his part, so loved her, that I remember hearing him say that, when he went to see her when she was dying, he lamented that he had not kissed her face as he did her hand.' So passed away Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa di Pescara ; a woman whose intellect, and still more the...

...Angelo), on his part, so loved her, that I remember hearing him say that, when he went to see her when she was dying, he lamented that he had not kissed her face as he did her hand.' So passed away Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa di Pescara ; a woman whose intellect, and still more the...

...his mind now to prepare himself, to put all in order that might yet be set right by him or redressed, to lift up his soul to God's mercy from this frail...refer to a commission of his earlier life, the statues (ch. iv. and vi.) for the Piccolomini altar at Siena ; for fifty years the work had been left incomplete,...