Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger

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Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (baptized 4 November 1568 – 11 January 1646) was a Florentine poet,

From 1588 to 1591 he studied mathematics at the University of Pisa, where he became friends with Galileo Galilei and Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII.

Career

Buonarroti was elected to the Accademia Fiorentina in 1585 and the Accademia della Crusca in 1589, and was one of the editors of first Italian dictionary, Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612).

After the wedding of

In 1612, Buonarroti began construction of a gallery (now the Casa Buonarroti) on the Via Ghibellino dedicated to his famous relative and commissioned numerous artists to paint murals, including Artemisia Gentileschi^[1] (WP Commons gallery). During this period his name became linked with Francesca Caccini, who composed the music for La Tancia, the Balletto and La Fiera.

Buonarroti's career as a courtier took a turn for the worse when the Grand Duchess

Legacy

Buonarroti's lyrics are found among many 17-century composers' musiche as well as in Luigi Dallapiccola's Sei Cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (1933).

Bibliography

• Janie Cole: A Muse of Music in Early Baroque Florence: The Poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane. Fondazione Carlo Marchi 33. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007
  ISBN 978-88-222-5704-8
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• Janie Cole: Cultural Brokerage and Music-Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane 2011
  ISBN 978-88-222-5989-9

• Accademia delle Arti del Disegno

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