The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti vs The Monsters of Templeton: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds · 1892 ★★★★☆ 3.8 520 pages · ≈ 9 h 38 m · Challenging

This is a story of Buonarroti Simoni, to whom Michelangelo belonged, were a Florentine family of ancient burgher nobility.

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Cover of The Monsters of Templeton The Monsters of Templeton Lauren Groff · 1998 ★★★★☆ 3.9 480 pages · ≈ 8 h 53 m · Moderate

A rollicking memoir by one of the greatest (and most outrageous) supermodels of the 1970s.Janice Dickinson was not only the first of the supermodels, she endured a nightmarishly traumatic childhood at the hands of a…

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The life of Michelangelo BuonarrotiThe Monsters of Templeton
Goodreads 3.8 (95) —
Hardcover — 3.6 (46)
Apple Books — 4.0 (128)

Reception

The life of Michelangelo BuonarrotiThe Monsters of Templeton
Ratings 95 128
Editions 76 23
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read 150 —
Written reviews 5 —
Wikipedia attention — 362
Pages 520 480

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