Michelangelo's Christian mysticism : spirituality, poetry, and art in sixteenth-century Italy /
Prodan, Sarah Rolfe,1978-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.
Introduction -- PART I: MICHAELANGELO AND RENAISSANCE AUGUSTINIANISM -- "The Sea, the Mountain, and the Fire with the Sword": An Augustinian Pilgrimage? -- "The Sea": The Vicissitudes of Inordinate Love, or Hell as Habit -- "The Mountain": Acedia and the Mind's Preseumption to Ascend -- "The Fire with the Sword": Grace and Divine Presence -- Conclusion -- PART II: MICHAELANGELO AND VITERBAN SPIRITUALITY -- The Benefit of Christ -- The Action of the Spirit -- Michaelangelo's Viterban Poetics -- Aesthetics, Reform, and Viterban Sociability -- Conclusion.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Christian poetry, Italian
Mysticism in literature.