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Michelangelo. – A. Condivi

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Michelangelo. -A. Condivi (1525-1574). The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Trans. R. Valdek, ed. R. Eitelberger. Vienna, Braumüller, 1874. VI, 159 p., 1 fol. Bindery of the time, margins Steinmann/Wittkower 496. - The author was pupil of Michelangelo, his biography of the master and the communications of Vasari represent the most important sources, in the second edition of Vasari's Viten emphatically adapted to Condivi's traditions. The present. The present edition reprints the first German translation of the work first published in 1553, probably written with Michelangelo's personal assistance. "Main source for the knowledge of his life" (Thieme/B.).