The Strength of Poetry
Subtitle: Oxford Lectures
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: April 3, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780374528485
First sentence: In old age, Giambologna used to tell his friends the story of how, as a young man, a Flemish sculptor newly arrived in Rome, he made a model to his own original design, finished it coll'alito, 'with his breath'-that is to say, with the utmost care, bringing it to the very peak of finish-and went to show it to the great Michelangelo.