[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition in Rhymed English of the Homoerotic Poetry of Michelangelo, 1878

[Charles Agvent]

SYMONDS, John Addington (translator). THE SONNETS OF MICHAEL ANGELO 
BUONARROTI AND TOMMASO CAMPANELLA. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. 
First Edition. Now for the First Time Translated into Rhymed English. 
Original smooth purple cloth stamped in black and gilt, including 
publisher's name on spine. This copy also without the initial bracket at 
the base of the title page per Babington 20. A collection of homoerotic 
poetry by the middle-aged Michelangelo, better known of course as an 
artist rather than an author, for the much younger Cavalieri, who 
perhaps embodied the ideals of masculine beauty that the artist had 
searched for throughout his career. Symonds's translation of the poems 
was one of the first to overcome the censorship that had plagued 
previous editions. This copy INSCRIBED "Edith H. Cave/From the 
Translator" on the half-title page in what is likely not Symonds's hand. 
Mild rubbing to spine edges. Near Fine. (#012666)        $250

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