{"product_id":"2940012044136","title":"Michael Angelo - A Dramatic Poem","description":"This ebook edition has been proofed and corrected and compiled to be read with without errors!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedication\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FIRST\u003cbr\u003eI - Prologue at Ischia\u003cbr\u003eII - Monologue: The Last Judgment\u003cbr\u003eIII - San Silvestro\u003cbr\u003eIV - Cardinal Ippolito\u003cbr\u003eV - Borgo delle Vergine at Naples\u003cbr\u003eVI - Vittoria Colonna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART SECOND\u003cbr\u003eI. Monologue\u003cbr\u003eII. Viterbo\u003cbr\u003eIII. Michael Angelo and Benvenuto Cellini\u003cbr\u003eIV. Fra Sebastiano del Piombo\u003cbr\u003eV. Palazzo Belvedere\u003cbr\u003eVI. Palazzo Cesarini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THIRD\u003cbr\u003eI - Monologue\u003cbr\u003eII - Vigna di Papa Giulio\u003cbr\u003eIII - Bindo Altoviti\u003cbr\u003eIV - In the Coliseum\u003cbr\u003eV - Macello de' Corvi\u003cbr\u003eVI - Michael Angelo's Studio\u003cbr\u003eVII - The Oaks of Monte Luca\u003cbr\u003eVIII - The Dead Christ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDRAMATIS PERSONÆ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Angelo.\u003cbr\u003eVictoria Colonna.\u003cbr\u003eJulia Gonzaga.\u003cbr\u003eFra Sebastiano Del Piombo.\u003cbr\u003eBenvenuto Cellini.\u003cbr\u003eTitian.\u003cbr\u003ePope Julius III.\u003cbr\u003eCardinal Ippolito.\u003cbr\u003eCardinal Salviati.\u003cbr\u003eCardinal Maricello,\u003cbr\u003eGiovanni Valdesso.\u003cbr\u003eGiorgio Valsari.\u003cbr\u003eBindo Altoviti.\u003cbr\u003eTomaso De Cavalieri.\u003cbr\u003eClaudio Tolommei.\u003cbr\u003eJacopo Nardi.\u003cbr\u003eUrbino.\u003cbr\u003eA Monk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEDICATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing that is shall perish utterly,\u003cbr\u003eBut perish only to revive again\u003cbr\u003eIn other forms, as clouds restore in rain\u003cbr\u003eThe exhalations of the land and sea.\u003cbr\u003eMen build their houses from the masonry\u003cbr\u003eOf ruined tombs; the passion and the pain\u003cbr\u003eOf hearts, that long have ceased to beat, remain\u003cbr\u003eTo throb in hearts that are, or are to be.\u003cbr\u003eSo from old chronicles, where sleep in dust\u003cbr\u003eNames that once filled the world with trumpet tones,\u003cbr\u003eI build this verse; and flowers of song have thrust\u003cbr\u003eTheir roots among the loose disjointed stones,\u003cbr\u003eWhich to this end I fashion as I must.\u003cbr\u003eQuickened are they that touch the Prophet's bones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt from the beginning of:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FIRST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI - PROLOGUE AT ISCHIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Castle Terrace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVITTORIA COLONNA, and JULIA GONZAGA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVITTORIA.\u003cbr\u003eWill you then leave me, Julia, and so soon,\u003cbr\u003eTo pace alone this terrace like a ghost?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJULIA.\u003cbr\u003eTo-morrow, dearest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVITTORIA.\u003cbr\u003eDo not say to-morrow.\u003cbr\u003eA whole month of to-morrows were too soon.\u003cbr\u003eYou must not go. You are a part of me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJULIA.\u003cbr\u003eI must return to Fondi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVITTORIA.\u003cbr\u003eThe old castle\u003cbr\u003eNeeds not your presence. No one waits for you.\u003cbr\u003eStay one day longer with me. They who go\u003cbr\u003eFeel not the pain of parting; it is they\u003cbr\u003eWho stay behind that suffer. I was thinking\u003cbr\u003eBut yesterday how like and how unlike\u003cbr\u003eHave been, and are, our destinies. Your husband,\u003cbr\u003eThe good Vespasian, an old man, who seemed\u003cbr\u003eA father to you rather than a husband,\u003cbr\u003eDied in your arms; but mine, in all the flower\u003cbr\u003eAnd promise of his youth, was taken from me\u003cbr\u003eAs by a rushing wind. The breath of battle\u003cbr\u003eBreathed on him, and I saw his face no more,\u003cbr\u003eSave as in dreams it haunts me. As our love\u003cbr\u003eWas for these men, so is our sorrow for them.\u003cbr\u003eYours a child's sorrow, smiling through its tears;\u003cbr\u003eBut mine the grief of an impassioned woman,\u003cbr\u003eWho drank her life up in one draught of love.","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155975389424,"sku":"2940012044136","price":1.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012044136_p0.jpg?v=1763552347","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012044136","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}