Chapter 7 Yili-4

So he mounted his horse and set off.April 17, 1506.The Pope received the letter, sent five cavalry to chase him, caught up at Poggibonsi at eleven o'clock in the evening, and gave him an order: "Receive this order, return to Rome immediately, otherwise you will be severely punished." ’ Michelangelo replied that he could return, if the pope kept his promise: otherwise, Julius II would never have to hope to see him again.All these statements are quoted from the above-mentioned letter of October 1542. He sent to the Pope a sonnet which some have attributed to 1511, but which I still think would be more appropriate at this time: "My lord, if the proverb is true , that's really the so-called 'you can't do it, you don't want it'. You believed those lies and slanders, but you paid him the enemy of the truth. As for me, I am, I was your faithful old servant, My refuge in you is like the light to the sun; and the time I spend does not move you! The more I toil, the less you love me. I hoped to be great in your greatness, I hoped in your just justice The sword of measure and majesty shall be my only judge, and not listen to the echoes of deceit. But after heaven has brought virtue into the world, it always plays with it, as if virtue was only in a withered tree" The tree of dry rope "metaphorically waits for the fruit on the pattern on the banner of the family of Julius II."

The insolence of Julius II was not the only cause of Michelangelo's flight.In a letter to Giuliano da Sangallo, he revealed that Bramante was planning to assassinate him. "That's not the only reason that made me go; there are other things, which I don't want to tell. At this moment, I just want to say that if I stay in Rome, the city will be my tomb, not the Pope's." This is the main reason for my sudden departure.” AA Giuliano da San Gallo (Giuliano da San Gallo, 1445? -1516), Italian Renaissance architect, sculptor and military engineer. Michelangelo is gone, and Bramante is the sole master.The day after his rival fled, he laid the foundation stone of St. Peter's.April 18, 1506.His deep hatred was centered on the works of Michelangelo, and he would arrange that Michelangelo's career could never be restored.He ordered the crowd to loot the workshops on St. Peter's Square where the stones for the tomb of Julius II were piled up.See Letter of October, 1542.

But the Pope, furious at the rebellion of his sculptor, sent successive edicts to the princes of Ferencía, where Michelangelo took refuge.The princes taught Michelangelo to go, and said to him: "You are making trouble with the Pope, which even the King of France would not dare to do. We will not open a dispute with him for your sake: so go back to Rome; we will give Your necessary letter, saying that what is unreasonable to you will be no different from unreasonable to us.” Same as above. Michelangelo was stubborn.He made a condition.He asked Julius II to let him build his tomb, and to work in Florence instead of Rome.It was at the end of August, 1506, when Julius II set out to conquer Perugia and Bologna.His edicts became more and more severe, and Michelangelo thought of Turkey, where the sultan had entrusted the Franciscan priests to ask him to build a bridge at Pella.Condivi recorded that in 1504, Michelangelo already had the idea of ​​going to Turkey.In 1519, he was in contact with the princes of Andrinople, who asked him to paint for him.We know that Leonardo da Vinci also had thoughts of going to Turkey.

Finally he had to give in.At the end of November 1506, he went to Bologna with aggrievedness. At that time, Julius II was besieging the city and entering Bologna as a conqueror. "One morning Michelangelo went to Mass at San Petronio. The Pope's horse caught a glimpse of him, recognized him, and led him to Julius II, who was in the palace of Eize Dinner. The pope said to him in anger: "You should go to Rome to visit us; and you should wait for us to visit you in Bologna!" - Michelangelo knelt down, asked aloud for pardon, said his The action was not out of malice but out of anger after being expelled. The pope sat with his head bowed slightly, his face full of anger; a bishop sent by the princely palace of Emerald to intercede for Michelangelo came forward and said "I beseech Your Majesty not to take his follies to heart; he sinned because of his folly. All painters are the same in everything but art." The pope, enraged, cried out: "You Speak to him insults that we dare not speak to him. You are the fool. . He drove him away. Then the pope's wrath was exhausted on the bishop, causing Michelangelo to come forward and pardon him," Condivey records.

Unfortunately, in order to make peace with Julius II, he had to obey his capricious temper; and this imperious will has been turned again.Now he no longer speaks of the mausoleum, but is about to erect a bronze statue of himself in Bologna.Michelangelo tried in vain to declare that "he knew nothing about casting copper."He will have to learn, again hard work.He lived in a very bad room, and he, his two assistants Rapo and Lodovico, and Bernardino, a coppersmith, had only one bed for the three of them.Fifteen months were spent in various troubles.Rapo and Lodovico stole him, and he quarreled with them.

"Rapo the rascal," he wrote to his father, "tells everyone that he and Lodovico did all the work, or at least they did it with me. They didn't know in their heads that they were not masters until I turned them out of the house; and until I turned them out they knew they were employed for me.Like animals, I chased them away. "Letter to his father, February 8, 1507. Rapo and Lodovico were very angry; they spread rumors in Emerald against Michelangelo, and even went to his father to extort money, saying that Michelangelo had stolen from them. Then there was the coppersmith who appeared to be a useless fellow.

"I believed that Master Bernardino could cast bronze, even without fire. How much I trust him." In June, 1507, the copper casting failed.The bronze statue is only cast to the belt part.Everything has to start over.Michelangelo worked on this work until February 1508.His health was compromised. "I hardly have time for meals," he wrote to his brother, ". . . I live in conditions of great discomfort and pain: thinking of nothing but working day and night; suffering, and now suffering so much that I believe that if I were to be another image, my life would not be enough: this is the work of giants.” To his brother, November 10, 1507 letter.