In addition to writing about the death at fifteen years of age of Cecchino dei Bracci, he wrote a number of poems dedicated to Vittoria Colonna and Tommaso dei Cavalieri.
One sonnet by this man asks "How can it be, Lady, as one can see from long experience, that the live image sculpted in hard alpine stone lasts longer than its maker, whom the years return to ashes?" He wrote an epitaph saying that "God wished to correct nature" by designing the subject's face. The subject of that epitaph was also the subject of a number of epigrams by this man with homosexual undertones. The speaker of one of his poems yearns for his skin to be flayed and made into a garment for his beloved. That poem was given the nickname "The Silkworm" by the translator John Addington Symonds. In addition to writing about the death at fifteen years of age of Cecchino dei Bracci, he wrote a number of poems dedicated to Vittoria Colonna and Tommaso dei Cavalieri. For 10 points, name this man whose poetry is not as well known as his artistic works, which include The Dying Slave and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
One sonnet by this man asks "How can it be, Lady, as one can see from long experience, that the live image sculpted in hard alpine stone lasts longer than its maker, whom the years return to ashes?"
Michelangelo Buonarroti [accept either name]