“This book is a precious occasion to get to know the real Michelangelo, free of the obfuscation of time: this man obsessed by art, at times wild, undoubtedly fragile and always unique. Forcellino even knows the millimetres of marble the artist struggled with and invites us to climb onto his scaffolds, where you may just make out the sound of his chisel at work.” Armando Torno, Corriere della Sera “Few Italian biographers are capable of writing with the passion of a novelist and precision of a scholar such as Forcellino. His Michelangelo speaks of the life of an artist that paid an extremely high price for his creativity, a price that would make him more famous than a king.” Brunella Schisa, il Venerdì di Repubblica