Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is rightfully considered one of the greatest geniuses of world art, who in his work reached not only the limits of skill, but also the highest peaks of spirit. Like other titans of the Italian Renaissance, he showed himself in a variety of fields - sculpture, painting, architecture, poetry. His long life was not easy: his complex character and uncompromising nature deprived him of friends, giving him many enemies and envious people, whose slander stained his name for many centuries. Among the many studies that truthfully tell about the fate and creations of the great master, one of the most notable promises to be his new biography, written by Alexander Makhov, a historian of Italian culture, a translator into Russian of Michelangelo’s poetic works, which appear in this book as an equally significant part of his creative work. heritage than the well-known painting and sculptural masterpieces.