Mangone’s current book project, Michelangelo and the Art of Imperfection, examines Michelangelo’s lifelong penchant for leaving his sculpture unfinished. Challenging narratives that perfection (as completeness and as an aesthetic ideal) is a defining criterion of Italian Renaissance art, embodied, above all, in Michelangelo’s work, the book shows how deeply his imperfect works (both in their lack of finish and their disruptive aesthetics) are imbricated in a wide network of period concerns and practices. Mangone is also at work on a project that examines the fractured picture of Renaissance architectural principles as seen through foreign language re-editions of Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola’s Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture, which from its first printing in the mid-16th century and into the 20th century appeared in hundreds of Latin, French, Spanish, English, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, and Japanese editions.