1501
“Michelangelo, explain this passage from Dante for us,” Leonardo Da Vinci cries out across the piazza, “They say he’s your favorite poet.” Words such as these might have begun a brief interaction between the two creative giants that prompted the historian, Giorgio Vasari, to write that the two felt an “intense dislike” for each other. History shows Michelangelo and Leonardo were fierce competitors...
“Michelangelo, explain this passage from Dante for us,” Leonardo Da Vinci cries out across the piazza, “They say he’s your favorite poet.” Words such as these might have begun a brief interaction between the two creative giants that prompted the historian, Giorgio Vasari, to write that the two felt an “intense dislike” for each other. History shows Michelangelo and Leonardo were fierce competitors...
