“was constructing a Temple”: Ibid., 309–10.
“I am not obliged”: Vasari, Lives, II, 708.
“Holy father”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 310.
“Doubt not that you are gaining good”: Ibid.
“[n]o-one who has not been”: Ibid., 129.
“I want you to get”: Ibid., 78.
“never consented to be bound”: Vasari, Lives, II, 709.
“I am in a state of greater anxiety”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 174.
“if one could die of shame”: Ibid., 178.
“[I]f I’ve delayed in coming”: Michelangelo, Carteggio V, 110.
“From the year 1540”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 310.
“disturbed, or hindered”: Ibid., 311.
“Holy Father”: Ibid., 314.
“Michelagnolo’s adversaries”: Vasari, Lives, II, 710.
“Everything was sad”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 299.
“my great pleasure here”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 620.
“As regards to the fabric”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 171.
“To leave now”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 600.
“all the prelates”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 245.
“As regards my being ill”: Ibid., 82.
My flesh made earth: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 228.
“He who pulled me”: Ibid., 525–26.
“Now that Luigi del Riccio is dead”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 250.
“I am old”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 537.
“The greatest artist”: Ibid., 196–98.
I admit that it seems to me: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 75.
“I do not want to . . . describe to you”: Ibid., 133.
“Lionardo,” he wrote: Ibid., 37–38.
“[I] have not failed to commend you”: Ibid., 245.
“an imposing house in the city”: Ibid., 64.
“All you need have an eye to”: Ibid., 129.
“[one] who is clean and respectable”: Ibid., 123.
Bishop de ’ Minnerbeti was here: Ibid., 137.
“Lionardo, I understand”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 596.
“We must give thanks to God”: Ibid., 598.
“[S]uch pomp displeases me”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 146.
“[I]f life pleases us”: Ibid., lii.
“I am not only an old man”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 540.
“Before men”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, liii.
“O night, though black”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 161–62.
“Michelangelo Buonarroti is”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, li.
“head, father and master”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 412.
“Lionardo—I see from your letter”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 207.
“O Daniele, I am done for”: Ibid., lii.
“So it would seem to me”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 412.
“I left him”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 313.
“in the attitude”: Ibid.
“the greatest man”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, lii.
“[Y]ou must know for certain”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 601.
“Lionardo, his nephew, arrived”: Vasari, Lives, II, 747.
“lest the report might spread”: Ibid., 753.
“in the twinkling of an eye”: Ibid.
[W]hen . . . all the rest of us: Ibid., 754.
Truly his coming was to the world: Ibid., 747.
The Academy of Painters: Ibid., 757.
“Who ever lived a more godly life?”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, liii.
“The greatest power”: de Tolnay, Art and Thought of Michelangelo, 33.
“[I]mages shall not be painted”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 398.
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