by Irving Stone · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408054924
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«Michelangelo» is Irving Stone's fictionalised biography, published by Editorial Planeta in hardback (640 pages, in Spanish).
In 1488, aged thirteen, Michelangelo enters Ghirlandaio's workshop; his father disapproves of this vocation, but the master accepts him without charge and convinces the family. The novel follows his career in Renaissance Italy, from the David and the Sistine Chapel to St Peter's Basilica.
Published on 8 March 2005, it belongs to the Planeta Internacional collection. The cover subtitle is «La biografía novelada del genio del Renacimiento».
For readers of historical fiction and artist biographies, and for those who want to approach the Italian Renaissance.
Irving Stone was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo.
