The New York herald., 1875-10-09
MICHAEL ANGELO.
CONTINUATION or THE ITALIAN FETE-rHE
WORKS OF THE FAMOUS SCULPTOR, POET AND
PAINTER-How ITALY HoNoRs HER ILUsTRI-
Gus DEAD

With the exception Of the exhibition Of the docu-
ments models, sketches and topics Of his statues
Michael Angelo festivals differ in nothing from all tho
other festivals in which Italy has INDUCED since 1860
when the festas for the annexations commenced and
which she has continued uninterruptedy from then to
now that she still merits the name OF the carnival
nation We have had the usual receptions by the pre-
feet at the Casino the court dinner at Pitt Palace the
lectures at the Pathological Society," the Institutes and
academies. So at the present moment are tho inbabi
of Bergamo feting the memory ofMayer and DON
zet, was Marin commemorated at Venice 80 Arotto
Tenaro. True tho Michael Angelo fetes commenced
with the grim ceremony OF the deposition Of the ashes
OF Carlo Botta santo Croce, which curious in
auguration but, with this exception, one description
would serve for all their predecessors contempo-
rares and successors But what cannot be denied is
that TO the originator OF these centenary reoie
ngs a complete idea OF Michael Angelo man. sculptor
painter, architect and poet, and for this we cannot be
too grateful
In the Buonarrot House, in the Academy Of Belle
Arte in the galleries in the Bargeo and in the San
Lorenzo chapel have ALL copies Of all, that
Michael Angelo wrought In his long aborous,
wrung life from his first 6as relief marble of Her
cues with the Centaurs to the last unfinished petra
statue OF Christ and the Virgin at which know no
toiled lovingly and with delight to himself when his
the house left by Casino to Florence, the house Of
Michael Angelo the younger great nephew of the great
uncle have records and relics of Michael Angelo
such nation possesses OF her great dead of four
centuries gone by. In the first place, we have
those precious nine volumes OF manuscript letters
documents and records some three hundred letters OF
his to his family another volume of letters to his
friends chiefly business matters connected with
his various commissions for the "tragc sepulchre" Of
julius for the Lorenzo chapel, for the Picoolomni
statue etc third of records and accounts which
abed us to follow his everyday life Then other five
volumes OF letters from family friends and the celebr-
ties of the time to hm-popes empcrors kings queens;
poets statesmen, famous women all eager obtain q
stroke from his pencil a line from his PEN In the
madrgas sonnets, pastoral poems, written always
in his clear, square, incisive hand on the
backs Of letters, on the backs of sketches,
in leisure moments and sent to his friends to have
their false notes corrected or the poem have
several versions so that in order to secure the best
real poet with perfect knowledge Of the Italian Ian
guage, which but few Italians possess Of the possible
meanings and hidden illusions of the times, is needed
Cesa GuastI has done his best given splendid quarto
volume with what he deems tho best version of each
poem with prose translation, and with the version
published by Michael Angelo the younger, IN 1900 But
we think that
MICHAEL ANGELO THE POET
will not be understood, until all the scattered poems
those of the Buonarroti archives those existing the
Vatican and in the British Museun-are fairly copied
and laid before some one competent man In Italy per-
haps Carduccio might succeed In matters Of transa-
tons only Robert Browning, IN England only Longel
low, in America, are equal to the task
Other treasures in this house are the models in clay
in Of tho statutes that Michael Angelo executed
conceived. 1t has always been affirmed that he
carved the David in marble without modelling it at all
in clay. But we have two models, rather two
studies for the David-ono III clay, one in wax The
former has the frame OF young athlete the head of
much older and is not very attracve the second
is marvel OF grace, beauty, strength and agility.
Indeed looking at II atentvey, the one hand extend
ing behind the body, the head which is exquisite
thrown back you to realize that this was Michael
Angeo's ideal, this the David he would have produced
had heno been tetored by that spoiled block of marble
on which he was compelled to work. We have also in
this collection portion OF the model Of Hercules and
Cacco the group which he to have executed, but
for which the commission was given to Bacio Baudi-
neli by Alessandro des Medci Models there are Of
ST. Giroamo, of Ajax supporting the body of Patrocles
OF a Christ without the and several studies OF
of different ages, and Of one female figure. There
is also model OF the descent from the cross, which
belongs to Cav. ottavo Gig, and which is for sale.
In the exhibition in Via Rcasoli where the David re-
moved from the porch of PaleZzo Pecchio stands
tLaa plaster casts OF all Michael Angelo's statues
Their the Moses but though said TO be fac-simile, 1t
does render the original perhaps on account of the
garing wheness Of the plaster, and because the lights
shades that the old marble has acquired want
ing The dead Christ on His mothers knee, the first
Peta is beautiful; the weary brow the resignation
the lips the exhaustion from the pain that preceded
death are rendered 80 the model OF Of the chained
youths in the Louvre, OF which you repeat
He was a Hunter OF the hills,
And followed there the deer and wolf
f0 &nd S sssrsG sas sanEsIH ss Go S's worst sS u Ills
In this exhibition is hung its column the magnh-
silver oak with golden aCOrnS the
academies OF Germany also photographs and copies of
Michael Angelo's paintings, drawings designs and
sketches existing in other countries But months
daily visit to these collections would barely suffice TO ex
anime and appreciate them all
OF speeches. discourses, harangues and orations
Michael Angelo have had sureit The two best
were undoubtedly delivered by Conti the Arch Consul
Of the Cruscan Academy and Dupec, the sculptor Of
Abel
Buonarote astonshed them does the aspect OF the
Alps. He chiscled in vigorous lines the portentous
thoughts Of his mind and interpreted them in his
writings His power lay in his intense concentration -"
CONT
But we need no interpreter Of Michael Angelo He
has revealed himself TO us by pen, pencil chseL One
felt him the summit of San Minato, at the foot of
his watch tower whence hoated the republican flag the
red lily white field on the bastons that he erected
and defended at the OF his ife in the little church
that he used 70 call his Bella Vanella and whose
walls the moonlight casts the shadow Of his David of
which a model in bronze il erected in the Piazzale
which bears his name.
The leading features OF the festival Tho grand
procession OF than 4, 900 persons, with thirty
bands, 200 flags, each representing a guild, an
academy institute society, which wound its way
Michael Angelos house To his tomb IN Santa Croce,
then up the PaZzae and there, AT the foot of the
David, stood in his very presence 2 Then the
visit to the house where the "Diyne Poet" the
scuptors true nspirer was born where he loved Bce
and the ''Vita Nuova; lost Bice and wept for
her, and grew greater in sorrow than he would ever
have grown in Joy; the house which he quilted
volunteer where his FIVE children were born to him,
and which he went forth into exile never TO
rms rILGRmAGK TO DATE's HOUSE
was a very happy one, and belongs, believe, to the
Syndc, who has certainly exerted himself beyond all
expectations and has succeeded in doing the honors OF
Florence they have been done by any Sndc be-
fore g. The congresses hedthat OF the vetern
airy surgeons extremely important its way ana that OF
architects aud engineers OF which shall have more
to say when It's proceedings shall have closed. The
illumination of the hills and towns that encrcle Flor
ence, OF the and villas, churches and palaces,
each of which has history and meaning connected with
OF the great gone before or the beauty OF
that magic 1t is difficult 70 speak Florence lay
below darkness and in silence save for the glcam
OF light along the Arno's banks and the
Palazzo Vecchio with the Tore d'Arnolto
traced in lines Of fire. But the crchng hills
gemmed with consolidated light beyond Fiesoe below
Setignano, where Michael Angolos infancy was
passed and the peculiar excellence of Tuscan illumna
tions is that they but outline IN pale fire the lines
Of their unique architecture Up from the Arno along
the old city walls cleaning above the Bobo gardens
the Bevcdere; then Belosquardo, where Calico
pointed his telescope and Foscoo evoked his sepul-
chres; then Hawthornes tower, where he evolved his