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    Florence 1505: Leonardo Battles Michelangelo
    Florence 1505: Leonardo Battles Michelangelo
    Florence 1505: Leonardo Battles Michelangelo
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    Florence 1505: Leonardo Battles Michelangelo

    By Gayle Millbank

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    In Firenze's renaissance Italy two mighty artists were forced together for two months in the Palazzo Vecchio. Tensions were high as all eyes, even the Pope's, were on the two giants.

    Leonardo da Vinci, 52, was comissioned to paint the Battle of Anghiari and Michelangelo , 30, to do a fresco of the Battle of Casina. For their part, as they were together for the first time in their lives and as they were competitors for artistic comissions, they were both very guarded.

    Add to this Leonardo's 25 year old adopted son, Salai, who was a rascal and thief and had a secret relationship with Michelangelo, then we have the ingredients for a colorful and dramatic two act play filled with intrigue and strong emotion.

    (Cover picture is part of a sketch of the Battle of Anghieri by Leonardo da Vinci.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGayle Millbank
    Release dateJan 7, 2012
    ISBN9780973142167
    Florence 1505: Leonardo Battles Michelangelo
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    Gayle Millbank

    In recent years with my concerns about global warming I have been thinking about Earth's future. We need a clean source of energy and to expand to space colonies. Hence Zeta Star Mizar White and her life in 6012 evolved.I hope you enjoy it. More down to Earth and the Italian Renaissance: I have studied figurative clay-sculpting for many years. So naturally when I visited Florence in 2000 I concentrated on Michelangelo's sculptures. In his home I viewed his first bas relief, The Battle of the Centaurs, and was so close to it I could see his fine chisel marks. David of course was incredible but Michelangelo's last pieta with Nicodemus was breath-taking. However, The Medici Tomb moved me to tears as I was overwhelmed with emotion in the midst of so many of his bigger-than- life sculptures. On returning to Victoria I decided to write his diary. After thorough research into his life, the popes, and the Medici family; each year on his birthday I imagined what his life was like and who or what was influencing it and wrote in his journal. The Lost Journals of Michelangelo flowed easily and are here for you to read. During my research I discovered Leonardo and Michelangelo were in Florence and creating battle scenes in the same room for three months. Florence 1505: Leonardo battles Michelangelo a stage play evolved.

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      Florence 1505 - Gayle Millbank

      Leonardo Battles Michelangelo: Florence 1505

      A Play by Gayle Millbank

      Copyright © 2011 by Seapoint Publishing and GG Millbank

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The characters and events portrayed in this book are real non-the-less this is a work of fiction as there is no way to know exactly what transpired in 1505 in Florence, Italy.

      Cover image: a portion of Studies for the Battle of Anghiari, by Leonardo Da Vinci, Accademia, Venice

      ISBN: 978-0-9731421-6-7

      Seapoint Publishing,

      Characters:

      Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci: After twenty-four years away, in 1503, Leonardo returned to Florence. He had recently completed the Last Supper in Milan and was working on the Mona Lisa. Sodorini immediately commissioned him to paint the Battle of Anghiari.

      Fifty-three-year-old Leonardo was handsome with a clean-shaven face framed in soft golden curls falling to his shoulders. His slim body was carefully dressed in the style of a courtier often wearing a short–for-the–times pink tunic. He was widely travelled, realistic, versatile, self-assured, sophisticated, and socially poised.

      He returned to Milan in 1506.

      Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni: After completing his first larger-than-life Pieta in Rome, in 1501, Michelangelo returned to Florence to sculpt David which was unveiled on Sept 8, 1504. Shortly thereafter he was commissioned by Soderini to commemorate The Battle of Casina on a wall in the room where Leonardo was working.

      Thirty year-old Michelangelo had wild dark hair and a beard, at a time when shaving twice a day was in style, and wore dark-colored clothes, usually dirty and covered in marble dust and chips. He was known to be reclusive, secretive, explosive, brooding, paranoid, angry, irritable, competitive and jealous.

      The Pope called him to Rome in the Spring of 1505 to begin work on the Sistine Chapel.

      Gian 'Salai' Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno: Salai accommpanied Leonardo to Florence. Salai's relationship with Leonardo is not clear but he may have been his adopted son as when Salai was ten years old he joined Leonardo's household and lived with him thereafter. And, at Leonardo's death he inherited the Mona Lisa and some property.

      Twenty-five year-old Salai was a very beautiful boy and appeared in a number of Leonardo's paintings. His nickname translated to 'the devil' and he was described by Leonardo as a liar, a thief, and a glutton.

      Place:

      Firenze’s (Florence's) Sala del Grand Consiglio (Great Hall) of the Palazzo Vecchio (old palace).

      Act One Scene One: January 31, 1505

      L: (sitting on a chair looking at his ¼ finished drawing on the wall, wearing his working tunic and has his coat and pink tunic folded neatly over the back of a chair.)

      S: (Saunters into the room carrying a basket, colorfully and expensively dressed with an open long coat.) I’m here.

      L: (Looks up.) It’s about time.

      S: Well, well aren’t we irritable. You sound like Borgia. (Drops basket carelessly)

      L: Lucky for you I’m not him. Where have you been?

      S: At home. Aren’t you glad to see me? (Waltzes around room)

      L: Of course I am. I want to see more of you.

      S: (Smiles wickedly) That can be arranged.

      L:(Laughs) Salai, you make me laugh.

      S: That’s a relief.

      L: Now that you are here, I couldn’t be better. You sparkle like the sun that shone brightly on me as I walked here this morning through the busy streets of Firenze.

      S: It’s still shining but you can’t tell in this dingy room.

      L: The air was crisp and clean . . . just as I remember it from my childhood.

      S: Ah si, yes, the perfect Vinci. (Groans.) Don’t start with the Vinci this, the Vinci that.

      L: (shrugs) You like Vinci too.

      S: Only when it’s funny. (Laughs.) Remember just before Christmas when Francesco was complaining about rancid oil. You tasted the oil in each of the barrels and said they were as fresh as the oil we buy here. He wouldn’t believe you. He dumped the barrels. . . right in the field. Then the oil wouldn’t soak into the frozen ground. What a mess. The chickens ran through the oil and tracked it all over the farm. (Laughs.) Now that was worth seeing.

      L: (laughs) It was a terrible waste of expensive oil.

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