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and we'll provide you with short and sweet bonus contact about the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely

wonderful in art history.

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yours. That's Podcast Perfection on Amazon. This week's topic, the deep relationship between

Michelangelo Buonarotti and a sweet art patron and poet,

Victoria Colonna.

A couple of hundred years ago, there was some gossip going around about our friend Michelangelo,

one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, and indeed of all time.

It was said that he had been involved in a secret romance,

a very passionate love affair with a woman by the name of Victoria Colonna. On top of being an

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