Bibliographical Note and Abbreviations
Original citations of poems by Michelangelo appearing in the text are taken from Girardi’s canonical edition of the Rime; also this editor’s numbering system has been followed. References to this and other editions quoted frequently appear with a short title followed by the editor’s (or translator’s) name in parenthesis, as listed here:
| Le Rime (ed. Guasti) | Le Rime di Michelangelo Buonarroti, pittore, scultore e architetto, ed. C. Guasti (Florence: Le Monnier, 1863). |
| Die Dichtungen (ed. Frey) | Die Dichtungen des Michelagniolo Buonarroti, ed. C. Frey (Berlin: G. Grote’sche, 1897). |
| Rime (ed. Papini) | Rime, intro. G. Papini (Florence: Rinascimento del Libro, 1927). |
| Rime (ed. Girardi) | Rime, ed. E.N. Girardi (Bari: Laterza, 1960). |
| Rime (ed. Barelli) | Rime, ed. E. Barelli, intro. G. Testori (Milan: BUR, 1975). |
| Complete Poems (ed. Linscott) | Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, ed. R.N. Linscott, trans. C. Gilbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980). |
| Life, Letters, and Poetry (eds. Bull, Porter) | Life, Letters, and Poetry, ed. and trans. G. Bull with P. Porter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987). |
| Rime (ed. Residori) | Rime, ed. M. Residori, intro. M. Baratto, with an essay by T. Mann (Milan: Mondadori, 1998). |
| Rime (ed. Fanelli) | Rime, ed. S. Fanelli, intro. C. Montagnani (Milan: Garzanti, 2006). |
| Poems and Letters (ed. Mortimer) | Poems and Letters: Selections, with the 1550 Vasari “Life”, trans. A. Mortimer (London: Penguin, 2007). |
| Rime e lettere (eds. Corsaro, Masi) | Rime e lettere, eds. A. Corsaro, G. Masi (Milan: Bompiani, 2016). |