A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure—an em… - Stephen Greenblatt

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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure—an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation—characterizes Montaigne’s restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes’s chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo’s depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo’s sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio’s loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ’s feet.

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(born November 7, 1943) is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author.

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Alternative Names: Stephen Jay Greenblatt • Stephen J. Greenblatt

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