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by Miles J. Unger


  God spoke to Noah and his sons: Genesis 1, 9:8–11.

  “He preached in the church of Santa Reparata”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 282.

  “[H]e insisted on having it uncovered”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 103–4.

  “[They] are trying to reduce me to nothing”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VI, 326.

  “the Rovere are a peasant family”: King, Michelangelo and the Pope ’s Ceiling, 137.

  “I’ll see if I’ve balls as big”: Jones and Penny, Raphael, 50.

  “has gone away”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 55.

  withdrawing without his permission: See Michelangelo, Letters, I, 60.

  Giovan Simone: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 95–96.

  “a man perfect in his generation”: Augustine, City of God, 516.

  “God fashioned man of dust from the soil”: Genesis 2:7.

  “lovely art that, heaven sent”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 157.

  “[G]ood painting is nothing else”: Holanda, Dialogues with Michelangelo, 47.

  “I work harder than any man”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 370.

  “I expect to finish by the end of September”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 71.

  “so weakened and dispirited”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 252.

  “flying like mist in the wind”: Unger, Machiavelli: A Biography, 190.

  “We have won, [Paride]”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VI, 416.

  “Never was any emperor”: King, Michelangelo and the Pope ’s Ceiling, 274.

  You have succumbed to rumors: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 72–73.

  “I finished painting the chapel”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 137.

  “our chapel was opened”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 99.

  “It was seen with great satisfaction”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 104–5.

  V. THE DEAD

  “negotiations are already beginning”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VI, 434.

  “I have lived forty years”: Ibid., 437.

  “[a] house of several stories”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, xxiv.

  “the son of poor but honest people”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 82.

  “a lamb rather than . . . a fierce lion”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VII, 26–27.

  “As God has seen fit”: Unger, Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de ’ Medici, 446.

  “a pitiable spectacle of calamity”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence, 216.

  “although it has given me pain”: Unger, Machiavelli: A Biography, 194.

  “evil plight”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 71.

  “[T]here are rumors going about”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 139.

  “I know the high regard the Pope has for you”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 253.

  “I do not doubt this”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 247.

  “[that] judged that in the whole field”: Vasari, Lives, II, 142.

  “steal[ing] at least three ducats”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 118.

  “[c]arry out your vendettas”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 171.

  “I remember that when Sebastiano”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 228.

  “All the world will know”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 229–30.

  “[T]he scarpellini from here”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 123.

  “vexations, annoyances, and travails”: Vasari, Lives, II, 676.

  “like flocks of starlings”: Vasari, Lives, II, 661.

  “I must make a great effort here”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 90.

  “[H]is entrance was greeted”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 130.

  “all for things of no duration”: Landucci, Diary, 285.

  “Pope Leo X”: Vasari, Lives, II, 676.

  “Michael Angelo”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 107–9.

  “When, in fifteen hundred and sixteen”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 426–27.

  “in order to give lie”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 253.

  “Now, from your last letter”: Michelangelo, Carteggio I, 219–20.

  “The cardinal doesn’t put faith in anyone”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 228.

  “I’m always ready to risk life and limb”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 135.

  “that he never thought of becoming”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 243.

  “a cage for crickets”: Vasari, Lives, II, 57.

  “I came to Florence”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 267.

  “I am eager to tackle this work”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 277.

  “As to your saying how eager”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 281.

  “not accept[ing] anyone beyond himself”: Vasari, Lives, II, 677.

  “the Pope and the Monsignore [Giulio]”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 315.

  “Not having been able to speak with you”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 291.

  “[T]he reason [Michelangelo] never supplied”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 328 (note).

  “I have undertaken to rouse the dead”: de Tolnay, Medici Chapel, 6.

  “The barges I hired at Pisa”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 410.

  “Dearest father”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 274.

  “I have never exerted myself”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 104.

  “I am not charging for the wooden model”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 220.

  “Michelangelo refused”: Vasari, Lives, II, 275.

  “an old man”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 106.

  “I have a great task to perform”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 146.

  “Yesterday evening”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 160.

  “I live on death”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 117.

  “Different it can be made”: Vasari, Lives, II, 679.

  “but with another manner of ornamentation”: Ibid., 679–80.

  “wherefore”: Vasari, Ibid., 680.

  “new fantasies”: Ibid.

  more than 100 craftsmen: See William E. Wallace, “Michelangelo at Work: Bernardino Basso, Friend, Scoundrel, and Capomaestro,” in I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, vol. 3 (1989): 235–77.

  Now you know that in Rome: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 143.

  “I’m dying of anguish”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 121.

  with this proviso: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 163.

  If my life is an annoyance: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 373–74.

  “shameful”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 200.

  They can’t sue me: Michelangelo, Carteggio, III, 144.

  “Through the first death”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 309–10.

  “Death is the end of a dark prison”: de Tolnay, Art and Thought of Michelangelo, 37.

  the finished works of lesser masters: Creighton Gilbert, “What is Expressed in Michelangelo’s Non-Finito,” Artibus et Historiae, vol. 24, no. 48 (2003): 59.

  “To the Liberator of the Fatherland”: Rendina, The Popes, 449.

  “[A]lthough he had a most capable intelligence”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 363.

  “He talks well but he decides badly”: Scotti, Basilica, 160.

  “You will have heard that Medici is made Pope”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 440.

  “If Your Holiness wishes me to accomplish anything”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 151.

  “Time, that consumes all things”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 118.

  He who made me: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 163.

  Day and Night speak: Ibid., 80.

  “Cease in a moment”: Ibid., 134.

  “did not model either Duke Lorenzo”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 343.

  “the unique Michelangelo Simoni”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 179.

  “[N]o one has ever had dealings with me”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 153.

  The night was mine: Michelangelo, Complete Poems of Michelangelo, 75.

>   “O night, though black”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 161–2.

  “[H]e abstained from pleasures”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 338.

  “A papacy made up of greetings”: Rendina, The Popes, 452.

  “the four figures are not yet finished”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 453.

  “I’m working as hard as I can”: Ibid., 458.

  “[T]he times are unfavorable”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 170.

  “There will be war in Italy”: Unger, Machiavelli: A Biography, 321.

  “Many were suspended hours by the arms”: Scotti, Basilica, 163.

  “dreadful news from Rome”: Unger, Machiavelli: A Biography, 328.

  “full of atrocities”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 376.

  “persuaded the Pope”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 272.

  “We had then in Florence”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 352.

  “because it was deprived”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 356.

  I left without telling any of my friends: Michelangelo, Carteggio, III, 280.

  “reproached him with being a timid man”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 291.

  “Each time, on his return”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 293.

  “we have as our enemy an entire people”: Najemy, History of Florence, 462.

  “tortures and persecutions”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 431.

  “[T]he pope having won the peace”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 367.

  “Michelangelo is wrong”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, liii.

  “duke of the Florentine Republic”: Najemy, History of Florence, 464.

  “Michael Angelo lived in great fear”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 121.

  “[H]e works much”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 224.

  “that there are many who believe”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 369.

  “Already burdened with a heavy heart”: Michelangelo, Complete Poems of Michelangelo, 65.

  “something that [you] would never dream of”: Hub, “. . . e far dolce la morte: Love, Death, and Salvation in Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment,’ ” Artibus et Historiae, vol. 26, no. 51 (2005): 111.

  “I see that I am yours”: Hub, “. . . e far dolce la morte,” 105.

  “I am leaving tomorrow morning”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 187.

  Heaven’s only where you are: Michelangelo, Complete Poems of Michelangelo, 62.

  VI. THE END OF TIME

  “[I]f I yearn day and night”: Symonds, Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 228.

  I realize that I could no sooner forget: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 470–71.

  “Thus, loving loyally”: Symonds, Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 234.

  “commend me to him”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 472.

  “In your handsome face”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 141–42.

  “My eyes are drawn”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 166.

  “Wild desire is not love”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 164.

  “I do not deem myself worthy”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, xviii.

  “[A]s far as I can see”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, xix.

  “may appear mechanical”: Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, I, 96, 100–101.

  “[I] should confess myself disgraced”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 183.

  “Ganymede, then, would signify”: Panofsky, Studies in Iconology, 215.

  “The composition is careful”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 136.

  “the hens and master cock”: Symonds, Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 227.

  “I desire to be rid of this obligation”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 169.

  “In the year 1533”: Vasari, Lives, II, 688.

  “[T]hose who have robbed me of my youth”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 31.

  “Painting and sculpture”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 26.

  “supreme architect, sculptor and painter”: Partridge, Michelangelo: The Last Judgment, 158.

  “Sometimes”: Holanda, Dialogues with Michelangelo, 42.

  “[E]ven his Holiness annoys”: Ibid., 40–41.

  “I’ll briefly fill you in”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 227.

  “Monsignor, I come to your Most Reverend Lordship”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 232.

  “is almost the only topic of conversation”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 273.

  “for lazy people and women”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 244.

  “and seeing the greatness of his own name”: Vasari, Lives, I, 593.

  “I must tell you”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 160.

  “As to the almsgiving”: Ibid., 81.

  “The news of Mona Margherita’s death”: Ibid., 7.

  “in a desperate state”: Vasari, Lives, II, 692.

  “He opened out the way to facility”: Ibid., 691.

  “Excellent painting imitates the works of God”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 89.

  [T]he sun will be darkened: Matthew 24:29–31.

  “the pulp in fruit compacted by its peal”: Michelangelo, Complete Poems of Michelangelo, 143–44.

  How I wish, my lord: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 154.

  “I believe that my Redeemer lives”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 27.

  “I wish to make a complaint”: Holanda, Dialogues with Michelangelo, 40–41.

  “[I]t is necessary that [he]”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 356.

  “Whenever I see someone”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 311.

  “[A]ll Rome knows”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, IV, 279.

  “great desire”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 295.

  “Sacred Majesty”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 61.

  “Now who would not be”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 272.

  “Magnificent Messer Pietro”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 3.

  “But why, O Lord”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, IV, 181–82.

  “certain Gerards and Thomases”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 297.

  “Lord, do not charge me”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 254.

  “The work is of such beauty”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 78.

  “shameful”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 296.

  “Even if my own father”: quoted in MacCulloch, Reformation: A History, 231.

  “one of the most illustrious”: Holanda, Dialogues with Michelangelo, 33.

  “God has permitted this persecution”: Scotti, Basilica, 156.

  “keys to the kingdom of heaven”: Matthew 16:19.

  “The justice of Christ”: de Tolnay, Final Period, 54.

  “believe that she could only be saved”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, xxix.

  “We hope that you will imitate his charity”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 288.

  “Before taking possession”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 4.

  “Unique Master Michelangelo”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 258.

  “Through the cross”: de Tolnay, Michelangelo: Painter, Sculptor, Architect, 105.

  O flesh, O blood: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 123.

  “sacred images modest and devout”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 85.

  “Is it not ridiculous”: Hub, “. . . e fa dolce la morte,” 103.

  [A]s a baptized Christian: Hughes, Michelangelo, 250–51.

  “Some subjects by their nature”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 98–99.

  “if ten people”: Barnes, “Metaphorical Painting . . .” Art Bulletin, vol. 77, no. 1 (March 1995): 67.

  “In the same month”: Wang, “Michelangelo’s Signature,” Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 35, no. 2 (2004): 469.

  “Suddenly, while he was traveling”: Acts 9:3–8.

  “In reply to your last letter”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 113.

  “In principle”: Rendina, The Popes, 457.

  “removing from Rome”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 82.

  “it was not
right”: Ibid., 87.

  “[C]ertain persons had informed him”: Vasari, Lives, II, 714.

  “[H]e used to tell me”: Vasari, Lives, II, 696.

  “I am old”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 561.

  “I’ve reached the end of my life ’s journey”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 284.

  VII. BASILICA

  “[A]s there was much anxiety”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 26–27.

  “His Holiness shows every happiness”: Scotti, Basilica, 78.

  “It’s all happening because of me”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 22.

  “Michael Angelo was the cause”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 79.

  “[T]he continual force of the wind”: Alberti, On the Art of Building, 26.

  “. . . all people are persuaded”: Scotti, Basilica, 123–24.

  “The name il Ruinante”: Scotti, Basilica, 75.

  “Why did you destroy my temple”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 25.

  “You are Peter”: Matthew 16:18–20.

  “This material edifice had destroyed”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 26.

  “encourage piety”: Alberti, On the Art of Building, 194.

  “It is obvious”: Ibid., 196.

  “For without order”: Ibid., 191.

  “The design of a temple depends on symmetry”: Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture, 72–73.

  “raise the dome of the Pantheon”: Scotti, Basilica, 132.

  “The New Basilica”: Ibid., 81.

  “Christians should be taught”: Ibid., 148.

  “Everything is for sale”: Ibid., 144.

  “eaten up three Pontificates”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VIII, 102.

  “What task can be nobler”: Ibid., 326.

  “[H]e lived”: Vasari, Lives, I, 747.

  “Acting more out of pity”: Scotti, Basilica, 137.

  “Messer Giorgio my friend”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, V, 105.

  “I recall a certain staircase”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 157–58.

  “I was forced to undertake”: Ibid., 153.

  “all the Sangallo faction”: Ibid., 307.

  “Messer Bartolomeo, dear friend”: Ibid., 69.

  “numerous projections and angles”: Ibid., 307.

  Whoever takes delivery: Ibid., 95–96.

  “Forasmuch as our beloved son”: Ibid., 308.

  the artist fretted: Ibid., 119.

 

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