Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella
Author: first_name: Michelangelo
last_name: Buonarroti
first_name: Tommaso
last_name: Campanella
Language: English
Year: 1878

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