The Agony and the Ecstasy (novel)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) is a biographical novel about Michelangelo Buonarroti written by Irving Stone. The basis for his novel was Michelangelo's correspondence, all 495 letters of which Stone had translated from Italian by Dr. Charles Speroni, a professor of Italian at California University. He also learned to carve marble in Florence. The novel painted an unlikely portrait of a heterosexual Michelangelo.
The book was made into a 1965 film, see The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)
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