The midsummer of Italian art . suc-cession, when at last Michel Angelo discovered thatthe guards had received orders not to admit himany more. Such unjust treatment, as he deemedit, produced a strong revulsion of feeling, and heleft Rome for Florence that evening. Courierswere sent after him, but with no effect. Neithercould Soderini persuade \ nti to return to the Popesservice. There are two possible explanations for the Popesaction. In the first place, he was on the eve of hisexpedition to Bologna: the other, that Michel An-gelo had offended him at a previous interview, andthe Pope employed
The midsummer of Italian art . suc-cession, when at last Michel Angelo discovered thatthe guards had received orders not to admit himany more. Such unjust treatment, as he deemedit, produced a strong revulsion of feeling, and heleft Rome for Florence that evening. Courierswere sent after him, but with no effect. Neithercould Soderini persuade \ nti to return to the Popesservice. There are two possible explanations for the Popesaction. In the first place, he was on the eve of hisexpedition to Bologna: the other, that Michel An-gelo had offended him at a previous interview, andthe Pope employed this method of correcting hisbehavior. The latter view was the more probableone, and gives this affair the character of a quarrelbetween lovers. The message which Michel Angeloreturned to Julius, that he might seek for some onewho would serve him better, carries out this view ofit to perfection. What strikes one rather curiouslyis that Michel Angelo should have applied to thePope to have his accounts audited, instead of to the. THE ERYTHRAEAN SIBYL, by MICHELANGELO Siatine Chapel, Rome The Works of Michel Angela. 97 Treasurer of the Vatican; also that he should havebeen able to leave Rome, though so well known tothe Popes officers, without special permission. Everybody was afraid of Julius; even Machiavelliwas. Michel Angelos friends in Florence wereanxious as to what might happen to him if heplaced himself again in the power of the , therefore, commissioned him in the sacredcharacter of an envoy from the Florentine state, andJulius, being now at Bologna, and having succeededin his enterprise, Michel Angelo went thither tomeet him, and a reconciliation was effected, it issaid, not without some electrical explosion, such astakes place when there is a sudden change in theelements. The immediate result of it was a bronzestatue of the Pope, six cubits in height, which oc-cupied Michel Angelo all of the following year. Asalready remarked, this statue was destroyed by th
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