How Long to Read The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 33 minutes to read The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella by Michael Angelo Buonarroti

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It is with diffidence that I offer a translation of Michael Angelo's sonnets, for the first time completely rendered into English rhyme, and that I venture on a version of Campanella's philosophical poems. My excuse, if I can plead any for so bold an attempt, may be found in this, that, so far as I am aware, no other English writer has dealt with Michael Angelo's verses since the publication of his autograph; while Campanella's sonnets have hitherto been almost utterly unknown. Something must be said to justify the issue of poems so dissimilar in a single volume. Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Michael Angelo was essentially an artist, living in the prime of the Renaissance. Campanella was a philosopher, born when the Counter Reformation was doing all it could to blight the free thought of the sixteenth century; and when the modern spirit of exact enquiry, in a few philosophical martyrs, was opening a new stage for European science. The one devoted all his mental energies to the realisation of beauty: the other strove to ascertain truth. The one clung to Ficino's dream of Platonising Christianity: the other constructed for himself a new theology, founded on the conception of God immanent in nature. Michael Angelo expressed the aspirations of a solitary life dedicated to the service of art, at a time when art received the suffrage and the admiration of all Italy. Campanella gave utterance to a spirit, exiled and isolated, misunderstood by those with whom he lived, at a moment when philosophy was hunted down as heresy and imprisoned as treason to the public weal.

How long is The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella?

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella by Michael Angelo Buonarroti is 212 pages long, and a total of 53,424 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 51 minutes to read The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella aloud.

What Reading Level is The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella?

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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