Cecchino dei Bracci
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Cecchino Bracci (real name Francesco de Zanobi Bracci) (Florence, 23 April 1528 – Rome, 8 January 1544) was a pupil of
Life and legacy
Cecchino was born in Florence on 23 April 1528 to Zanobi Bracci,
Around 1540 Cecchino accompanied his uncle, Luigi del Riccio, to Rome where he had links with the Strozzi banking family. Cecchino's beauty and manners made him welcome at the papal court. During his stay he met some of the major Florentine artists working in the city, including Michelangelo.
He died on 8 January 1544,
Michelangelo composed more than forty-two epigrams of four lines each.
Cecchino was buried in the church of
References in Michelangelo's poetry
Bracci is seen in Michelangelo's poem G.193 where he laments that he did not get to know him for long enough. He states:
- Scarce had I seen for the first time his eyes
- Which to your living eyes were life and light,
- When closed at last in death's injurious night
- He opened them on God in Paradise.[5]
The tomb
References
Citations
- ^ Ramsden (1963), p. 256
- ^ Ramsden (1963), p. lxi
- ISBN 9788892561601.
- ^ Petrucci (1998), p. 79
- ISBN 9780316353786.
Bibliography
- Petrucci, Armando (1998), Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition, Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-2859-1
- Ramsden, E. H. (1963), The Letters of Michelangelo, Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-0183-9