Le Lettere di Michel-Angelo Buonarroti, publicate, coi Ricordi ed i Contratti artistici, per cura di Gaetano Milanesi. Florence, 1875, in-fol., IX, 721 pages. Lemonnier (495 letters, from 1497 to 1563).
Rime di Michel-Angelo Buonarroti, raccolte da Michelagnolo suo nipote. Florence, 1623, Giunti (first complete edition, but full of errors).
Rime di Michel-Angelo Buonarroti, cavate dagli autografi e publicate da Cesare Guasti. Florence, 1863 (first really accurate edition).
Die Dichtungen des Michel-Angelo Buonarroti, herausgegeben und mit kritischem Apparat versehen von Carl Frey. Berlin, 1897 (the finest and most complete edition of the poems of Michelangelo which has been made up to the present time).
II.—WORKS ON MICHELANGELO
I. WRITINGS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
Giorgio Vasari.—Vite degli architetti, pittori e scultori (first edition). Florence, 1550, in 4to;—(second edition). Florence, 1568, in 4to.—edition of Milanesi. Florence, 1856, Lemonnier.
Ascanio Condivi.—Vita di Michel-Angelo Buonarroti. Rome, 1553, Antonio Blado;—(second edition). Florence, 1746, with notes by Mariette.
Paolo Giovio.—Michaelis Angeli Vita, published by Tiraboschi in his Storia della letteratura italiana, Vol. IX, Modena, 1781.[{182}]
Sammlung ausgewaehlter Biographien Vasaris, herausg. von Carl Frey (in the second volume are gathered le Vite de Michel-Angelo Buonnaroti, critical edition of all the biographies written by his contemporaries).