![]() Stone’s work is so detailed and researched that in reading it, I walked the streets of Renaissance Florence, roamed the hills beyond its walls, and interacted with great figures like Da Vinci and Lorenzo de Medici. As historical fiction, The Agony and the Ecstasy transports its reader to late fifteenth-/early sixteenth-century Italy. From his apprenticeship at that bodega Michelangelo embarks down a winding path toward artistic greatness. Stone’s novel begins with young Michelangelo finding his way to Ghirlandaio’s studio (of fresco painting) as an adolescent. It’s 661 pages follow Michelangelo Buonarroti throughout his impressive life. ![]() Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), the biographical novel of Michelangelo, was the first unread book I pulled from my shelves during our quarantine. One silver lining of the corona virus stay-at-home order and closure of all nonessential businesses (the public library included), is that I have found myself scanning my bookshelves for unread titles. ![]()
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