Irving Stone—Doubleday ($5.95 ... In the present fictionalized life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Author Stone has transcended himself; The Agony and the Ecstasy raises blurbese to blurbissimo.

‘Irving Stone renders the cyclorama of the ... my entirety into the oneness of being Michelangelo Buonarroti, who was devoured with the burning hunger of serving just one love, the ‘pietra ...

Unger presents the High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti through six of his ... have Vasari’s “Lives of the Painters,” Irving Stone’s novel “The Agony and the Ecstasy ...