This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...from entering on this See Platner and Bunsen, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom., vol. ii. p. 151, where the opinion of Michael Angelo as to this model will be found in a letter from himself to a certain Messer Bartolommeo; or the original of that letter may be consulted in the Lettere Pittoriche, torn. vi. p. 26. office, but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...from entering on this See Platner and Bunsen, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom., vol. ii. p. 151, where the opinion of Michael Angelo as to this model will be found in a letter from himself to a certain Messer Bartolommeo; or the original of that letter may be consulted in the Lettere Pittoriche, torn. vi. p. 26. office, but that if he were to undertake the charge, he would not suffer one of them to remain about the building. These words thus publicly spoken, were taken very ill, as nay readily be supposed, and awakened so much hatred against Michelagnolo, that this, increasing daily as the whole arrangement of the work was seen to be changed both within and without, permitted Michelagnolo to have no peace, Lis adversaries constantly inventing new methods of tormenting him, as will hereafter be seen. At length the Pontiff issued a Motu-proprio, by which he appointed him Superintendent of the fabric, with full authority to do or undo, decrease, extend, or change as it should seem good to him, and furthermore commanding that the whole government of those who were employed should be in his hands. Thereupon Michelagnolo, seeing the confidence which the Pope placed in him, desired to prove himself worthy thereof, and had a clause inserted in the Motu-proprio, to the effect that he performed his office for the love of God, and would accept no reward, although the Ferry of the river at Parma, which had formerly been given to him by the Pope, had been lost to him by the death of the Duke Pier-Luigi, and he had received only a Chancery of Rimini, which brought him in but a small revenue, in its stead. But that circumstance he did not regard; and although Pope Paul more than once sent him money as a stipend, he would never accept any, a fact to which Messer Alessandro Ruff...
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