This lecture is presented in partnership with The Department of Art, Univ. of Toronto
Focusing on the perpetual spiritual exile of the artist’s literary persona, this talk elucidates the struggles of Michelangelo the poet to achieve spiritual and psychological freedom in a world where trial was conceived as a divine instrument, hardship could serve as a means of liberation, and self-undoing could be reversed only by the illuminating and guiding force of God.
SARAH ROLFE PRODAN is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. She is the author of Michelangelo’s Christian Mysticism: Spirituali-ty, Poetry and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which won the 2013 MLA Scaglione Publication Award for a manuscript in Italian literary studies.
