Saggi : il "San Giovannino" mediceo di Michelangelo, da Firenze a Úbeda

For almost half a century art historical literature has concurred that the marble "San Giovannino" ("Young St. John the Baptist") carved by Michelangelo for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici is an entirely lost and unknown work. This article seeks instead to demonstrate that it is one of the six or seven candidates unsuccessfully proposed by scholars up to 1964, and indeed the least successful of all: the "San Giovannino" that belonged to Francisco de los Cobos (c. 1477-1547), secretary of Emperor Charles V, and was given by him to his chapel-mausoleum of El Salvador in Úbeda (Andalusia)--a sculpture with a doubly unfortunate fate, as it was half destroyed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. The statue's attribution to Michelangelo, proposed by Manuel Gómez-Moreno in 1930, has been systematically rejected or overlooked by scholars to the present day, and the author must therefore reiterate it, as if for the first time. [Abridged Publication Abstract]