Chapter 17 1 love-2

Varchi added: "When I met Mr. Cavalieri in Rome, he was not only of incomparable beauty, but also gentle in manner, outstanding in thought and noble in action. He is more thorough." See "Lectures Two" by Valkyrie. (1549) Michelangelo met him in Rome in the autumn of 1532.The first letter he wrote to him was full of passionate confession, and Cavalieri's reply letter to Michelangelo on January 1, 1533 was also very dignified: "I accept I am very glad to have received your letter, especially because it came out of my accident; I say: out of my mind, because I don't believe it is worth writing to me from a man like you. If I express my admiration for my work, I can answer you: My personality and work can never make a unparalleled genius like you—I say unparalleled, because I don’t believe that there is a second person besides you. —saying that to a young man in the Enlightenment Age. But I don't believe you're lying to me either. I believe, yes, I'm sure that your feelings for me are indeed an art incarnate like you. For everything What those who devote themselves to art and love art must feel. I am one of these people, and in this love of art, I will let no one. I return your kindness, I promise you: I never I have loved others as much as you, and I have never expected from others as much as I have expected your friendship... I ask you to drive me when I can be of your service, and I will always be for you.

Your faithful Tommaso Cavalieri" Cavalieri seems to have perpetually maintained this moving but cautious tone. He remained faithful to Michelangelo until his deathbed, and he was there to die. Michelangelo also always trusted him; he is considered the only person who influenced Michelangelo, and he also used this confidence and influence to serve Michelangelo's happiness and greatness. It was he who made Michelangelo decide to complete the holy The wood-carved model of the dome of Peter's Basilica. It is he who preserves for us Michelangelo's design for the structure of the dome, and it is he who strives to realize it. And it is also he who, after Michelangelo's death, followed his deceased friend will supervise the implementation of the project.

But Michelangelo's friendship with him is nothing short of the madness of love.He wrote countless exciting letters to him.He prostrated himself in the dust and appealed to idols.Michelangelo answered Cavalieri's first letter on the same day (January 1, 1533).There were three drafts of this letter.In the footnotes of one of the drafts, Michelangelo wrote "it is true here to use the term of a thing dedicated by one person to another; but it cannot be used in this letter for the sake of etiquette". —here clearly the term "love."He called him "a mighty genius, ... a miracle, ... the light of the age"; he begged him "not to despise him, for he is not compared with him, and has no equal".He bequeathed to him his present and his future; and he added: "This is an infinite pain to me: I cannot give you my past so that I may serve you longer, for the future is short. : I am too old..." Michelle to Cavalieri, January 1, 1533.I believe that nothing can destroy our friendship, though I presume; for I am still under you. ” Draft of Mie’s letter to Cavalieri, July 28, 1533. “… I can forget your name as I forget the bread on which I live; Sustaining my flesh without pleasure, and not forgetting your name that sustains my soul and body,...it makes me feel so sweet that when I think of you, I feel neither pain nor fear of death . "July 28, 1533 Michaelis to Cavalieri. "—My soul is entirely in the hands of the one to whom I give it..." Michaelis to Bartolomeo Angiolini. "If I had to stop thinking about him, I believe I would die immediately. "Mi's letter to Pionbo.

His most exquisite gift to Cavalieri: "Amazing sketch, a head drawn in red and black pencils, which he drew with the intention of teaching him how to draw. Next, he gave him a copy of Ganymede Lifted by the Wings of Zeus, a Theus, and many other most perfect works," Vasari records. AA Ganymede, the wine boy of the god Zeus; Titvos, the giant of Greek mythology, shot to death for the god Apollo and the goddess Artemis, because he tried to rape his mother Leto. He also sent him sonnets, sometimes beautiful, often dark, parts of which were soon recited in literary societies and sung by all Italy.Valky published the two poems, and later he published them in "Two Lectures". —Michelangelo did not keep his love secret, he told Bartolomeo Angelini, Piombo.Some of these friendships are not surprising.When Bracci died, Riccio uttered his cry of love and despair to all his friends: "Yo! My friend Donato! Our Bracci is dead. All Rome weeps for him. Michelangelo Lo plans his memorial for me. Write me a memorial, write me a letter of consolation: My misery drives me out of my mind. Patience! Thousands die every hour. O God! how fate has changed its face!" (Letter to Donato Giannotti in the first month of 1544) It is said that the following is "the most beautiful lyric poem in Italy in the sixteenth century": Xie Fu Lyle said.

"Through your eyes, I see light that my blindness cannot see. Your feet help me to bear burdens that my feeble feet cannot bear. From your spirit, I feel soaring to heaven. I Your will is all contained in your will. My thoughts are formed in your heart, my words are uttered in your breath. When alone, I am like the moon, seen only when the sun shines on it." Poetry Vol. One hundred and nineteenth. Another, more famous sonnet, is the most beautiful lyric of perfect friendship: "If between two lovers there is chaste love, sublime piety, and equal fate, if cruel fate strikes one Strikes the other at the same time, if one spirit and one will rule two hearts, if one soul in two bodies becomes eternal, and carries the two to heaven on the same wings, if Eros on an arrow at the same time It hits the hearts of two people, if everyone loves each other, if everyone doesn't love themselves, if two people hope that their happiness and happiness will have the same ending, if thousands of love can't reach one percent of their love, then Will one act of resentment sever their bond forever?" Poems, vol. 44.

This self-forgetfulness, this passion to melt one's whole life into the lover's whole life, is not always clear and peaceful.Melancholy has become the master again; while the soul controlled by love is moaning and struggling: "I cry, I burn, I torture myself, and my heart is dying of pain..." Volume 52 of the Anthology of Poems. He said to Cavalieri again: "You took away the joy of my life." Poems Volume 109, No. 18. For these overly enthusiastic poems, Cavalieri, "The Gentle Beloved" poetry anthology volume 100, responded with calm and stable feelings.Poems volume one hundred and ninety-eighth.The exaggeration of this friendship made him secretly embarrassed.Michelangelo begged his forgiveness: "My dear Lord, do not be angry with my love, which is devoted entirely to your best virtue; for the spirit of one should love the spirit of another. Desiring, what I have gained from your beautiful appearance is absolutely beyond human comprehension. Whoever wants to understand it must first know death." Volume 50 of Poetry Collection.