MICHAEL ANGELO, CONSIDERED AS A PHILOSOPHIC POET. WITH TRANSLATIONS. BY JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR. " Ενθουσίασις τοῦ καλοῦ πασῶν τῶν ἐνθουσιάσεων ἀρίστη τε Plat. Phædon. LONDON: SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET. PQ 4615 B673 1840 277614 "Guarda che ben s'intenda, Che sue parole son molto profonde, E guarda il ver che dentro vi s' asconde." (Canzone di Giotto, tratta da un MS. della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze.) PREFACE. THE remarks on the poetry and philosophy of Michael Angelo which are prefixed to these Translations, have been collected and are now published, in the hope that they may invite the student of literature to trace the relation which unites the efforts of the pure intelligence and the desires of the heart to their highest earthly accomplishment under the complete forms of Art. For the example of so eminent a mind, watched and judged not only by its finished works, but, as it were, in its growth and from its inner source of Love and Know |