Michel Ange

Michelangelo captures David in the suspended instant before action—poised between two forces, in a silence of perfect trajectory. David is calm; he waits for silence, for a moment when no wind can deflect his shot.

In this luminous text, Erri De Luca offers a poetic meditation on David, bridging the young biblical shepherd and the marble giant sculpted by Michelangelo. Through the tension of disproportion, he crafts a powerful narrative of transformation—of a boy into a king, of raw matter into form. Blending lyrical prose with visual dialogue, this work invites readers into a striking encounter between word and image—both intimate and monumental.