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The Last Judgment: A Novel of Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna
At 65 Michelanglo is completing his second painting masterpiece, and is also in love with Vittoria Colonna, the finest woman poet in Rome; but her beliefs clash with those of the Pope, and the Vatican has set itself against her. Michelangelo must navigate his divided duties between love, faith and art, just as Vittoria faces the schism between loyalty to her religion, and her heart.
149 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 5, 2024
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January 2, 2026
This book went between “it’s okay and I like some of the ideas” to “THEY WOULD NOT SAY THAT” so often. In it, Michelangelo and Vittoria are romantically/sexually into each other (historically their relationship was a very intense platonic thing of two weirdos matching each other’s freak in a way that only happens once a century). And then the ending where she rejects his marriage proposal killed me in a bad way, she says
“we are very different people, you and I; we don’t think the same way, we don’t love the same way. I never thought to marry again after Ferrante, and I still honor him every day in my heart; that you and I have come so close that I weighed it for so long, that I questioned my soul every night about it, I never thought another man could ever bring me such joy. But you are hard to hold close, you are hard work, Michela—I am lesser when I’m with you, and I will stay in no-one’s shadow, nor stand supported by anyone.”
and. This is like the EXACT OPPOSITE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP. She and Michelangelo were a lot alike and they loved in the same way and SHE WOULD NEVER SAY HE’S HARD WORK OR THAT SHE FEELS LESSER WHEN WITH HIM.
Needless to say I am mad.
“we are very different people, you and I; we don’t think the same way, we don’t love the same way. I never thought to marry again after Ferrante, and I still honor him every day in my heart; that you and I have come so close that I weighed it for so long, that I questioned my soul every night about it, I never thought another man could ever bring me such joy. But you are hard to hold close, you are hard work, Michela—I am lesser when I’m with you, and I will stay in no-one’s shadow, nor stand supported by anyone.”
and. This is like the EXACT OPPOSITE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP. She and Michelangelo were a lot alike and they loved in the same way and SHE WOULD NEVER SAY HE’S HARD WORK OR THAT SHE FEELS LESSER WHEN WITH HIM.
Needless to say I am mad.
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