The Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, thinker, greatest master of the Renaissance, genius Michelangelo Buonarroti is the hero of this book. In terms of the scale of their activity, only the most selected of the great creative personalities can be placed on a par with Michelangelo. All over the world his name is associated with the fresco “The Creation of Adam”, the statues of David and Moses, the Cathedral of St. Peter's in Rome... Michelangelo was an amazing man, and his life was no less amazing. He knew what he wanted, he went towards his goal, sparing neither himself nor those around him, becoming the first sculptor to show in marble all the beauty of the human body. What was he like in life, what did he suffer from, what did he hate, who did he love? This book will tell you about all this and much more from the life of the great Michelangelo.