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Title: Read it and Weap...literally
Review: I purchased this book at a used book store in Florence, and found it to be the highlight of my 3 month stay in this city. The Renaissance up to that time always seemed so remote, but Stone builds such a convincing sense of time and place with this book, that the legendary artistic genius of Michaelangelo finally becomes real. The book actually brought me to tears as Stone portrays the loneliness of the obsessed artist.The Agony and the Ectasy is one of those books that is difficult to put down...reminds me of the narrative writing style of Aynn Rand in the Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. This is one of the few historic novels that I would read again.
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