Chapter 14 Three Despair-2

Varchi added this story and said: "Michelangelo sewed twelve thousand gold coins in three shirts, and he escaped from the Emerald without difficulty. He and Rinaldo Corsini and his pupil Antonio Meany through the least guarded Gate of Justice." A few days later, Michelangelo said: "Whether God is instigating me or the devil is playing tricks on me, I don't understand." His usual terror was, after all, false.But when he was passing through Castelnuovo, he said something frightening to Caponi, the ex-prefect, and described his experiences and predictions so horribly that the old man died of fright after a few days.According to Segney.It can be seen what a terrible state he was in at that time.

On September 23, Michelangelo went to Ferrare.In a frenzy, he refused the invitation of the local grand duke to live in his castle, and continued his escape.On September 25th he arrived in Venice.When the local princes learned of it, they immediately sent two envoys to meet him and entertain him; but being ashamed and wild, he refused and took refuge in Judeka.He also thought he hadn't escaped far enough.He is going to flee to France.On the very day he arrived in Venice, he wrote an urgent letter to his friend Battista della Pala, who was acting as an agent of art for King Francis I in Italy: "Battista, dear friend, I I left Emerald and wanted to go to France; when I arrived in Venice, I asked about the route: they said that I had to go through the border of Germany, which was a dangerous and difficult road for me. Do you still intend to go to France?... Please tell me , please tell me where you want me to wait for you, we can go together... I beg you, give me an answer after receiving this letter, the sooner the better, because I am in a hurry to go to the Fa, in case You have no intention of going, so let me know, too, so that I may go alone at any cost..." To Battista della Pala, September 25, 1529.

The French ambassador in Venice, Lazare de Balves, hastily wrote to Francis I and Marshal Montmorency, urging them to take the opportunity to invite Michelangelo to the French court to keep him.The French king immediately paid tribute to Michelangelo, willing to give him an annual salary and a house.However, it will naturally take some time for letters to be returned. When Francis I's reply arrived, Michelangelo had already returned to Emerald. The frenzied fever subsided, and in Judkar's silent sojourn he had only leisure to be ashamed of his terror.His escape was a hot topic in Fei Leng Cui. On September 30, the Consul of Fei Leng Cui ordered that all fugitives who did not return before October 7 would be punished with treason.On a fixed day, all fugitives were declared rebels and their property was confiscated.However, Michelangelo's name had not yet been included in that list; the consul gave him a deadline, and Galeodo Giuni, the embassy of Florence in Ferrare, informed the republic that Michelangelo Qi Luo learned the order too late, and if he could be forgiven, he was ready to return.The Consul promised to pardon Michelangelo; he entrusted the stonemason Bastiano di Francesco to bring a residence permit to Venice and give it to Michelangelo, and at the same time he gave him ten letters from his friends The letters are all asking him to go back.October 22, 1529.In these letters, the magnanimous Battista de la Parra especially expresses patriotic zeal: "All your friends, without division, without hesitation, with one voice, long for your return, in order to preserve your Life, your country, your friends, your fortune, and your honour, for the enjoyment of this new age which you have so passionately hoped for."

He believed that Fei Lengcui had returned to the golden age, and he thought that the bright future had won. —In fact, the poor man was one of the first victims of the reactionary forces after the Medici family came back to power. What he said determined Michelangelo's mind.Fortunately he came back—slowly; for Battista della Parra, who had come to meet him at Lucque, had been waiting for him so long that he began to despair.He wrote to Michelangelo again, urging him to return.On November 20, Michelangelo finally returned to Fei Leng Cui.A few days ago, his salary was canceled by order of the consul.On the 23rd his conviction was annulled by the consul, but he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment from the Great Council.According to Mitchell's letter to Pionbo, he was also sentenced to pay a fine of 1,500 gold coins for confiscation.

From then on, Michelangelo bravely performed his duties until the end.He returned to his former post at San Miniato, where the enemy had been bombing for a month; he rebuilt the hill, invented new weapons, covered the bell tower with cotton and quilts, so that the famous building Things have to be free from difficulties.Michelle wrote in his letter to Francisco Te Oranda: "When Pope Clement and the Spanish army jointly besieged Emerald, such enemy forces were stopped for a long time by the machine I placed on the bell tower. One night , I covered the outside of the walls with wool bags; another night I dug pits and planted gunpowder to blow up the Justi; This is what painting is for! It is used for the instruments and implements of war; it is used to give proper form to bombardments and pistols; it is used to build bridges and make ladders; The disposition of the confrontation..." (Francisco te Oranda: Discourse on Painting in the City of Rome, Book III, 1549) What is known of his last activities in the siege is a The news of February 22, 530, said that he climbed on the dome of the great temple, spying on the enemy's movements and inspecting the condition of the vault.

But the predicted disaster finally came.On August 2, 1530, Malatesta Ballion rebelled.On the twelfth, Fei Lengcui surrendered, and the city was handed over to Baccio Valori, the Pope's emissary.And so the killing began.In the first few days, nothing could prevent the victor's vengeance; Michelangelo's best friends - Battista della Pala - were the first to be killed.It is said that Michelangelo hid in the bell tower of the church of San Niccolo on the other side of the Arno River.He had cause for fear: rumors were that he had wanted to destroy the Medici Palace, but Clement VII had not lost his affection for him.According to Piombo, the Pope was very unhappy when he learned of Michelangelo's situation at the siege; On April 29, 1931, Piombo wrote a letter to Mie.When the initial anger subsided, Clement immediately wrote to Fei Lengcui. He ordered someone to search for Michelangelo, and said that if he still wanted to continue working on the Medici tomb, he would receive what he deserved. treatment.Conti records——From December 11, 1530, the Pope restored Michelangelo's monthly salary.

Michelangelo emerges from seclusion to work again for the glory of those whom he resists.The poor man did more than that: he was the instrument of Baccio Valori, who did bad things for the Pope, and the murderer of Battista della Parana, the friend of Michelle, sculptured " Apollo Drawing Arrows.Autumn 1530.This image is now in the Fei Leng Cui National Art Museum.Before long, he went so far as to deny that the exiles had ever been his friends.1544.The deplorable weakness of a great man forces him to bow his head cowardly in front of material violence in order to preserve his artistic dream.It is not for nothing that he dedicated his last years to building a superhuman monument to the apostle Peter: because, like Peter, he had wept so many times when he heard the cock crow.

Forced to lie, obliged to flatter a Valori, to praise Lorenzo and Giuliano, he bursts with pain and shame at the same time.He puts his whole body into his work, and he vents all his empty frenzy in his work.That is, in the bleakest years of his life, Michelangelo's wild nature rebelled against the pessimism of Christianity that had always suppressed him, and he produced bold and pagan works such as "The Goose Play". The Leda" (1529-1530), originally painted for the Grand Duke Ferrare, and later Michelle gave it to his student Antonio Mini, who brought it to France, it is said It was destroyed in 1643 by Sublette of Noailles who thought it was a profligacy.Later, Michelangelo painted the sketch of "Venus Caressed by Cupid".There are also two extremely obscene sketches, probably also contemporary.He is not sculpting a portrait of the Medici at all, but of his despair.When it was mentioned to him that his portraits of Lorenzo and Giuliano were not resemblance, he replied beautifully: "Who will know the resemblance after a thousand years?" "; the other is carved as "Thought": the many images on the pedestal seem to be the annotations of the two main images——and, "Morning" and "Twilight",—telling the distress and disgust of all life.These monumental symbols of human suffering were completed in 1531.It was probably sculpted in the autumn of 1530 and completed in the spring of 1531; "Morning" was completed in September 1531; and "Twilight" was later.Supreme sarcasm!But no one understands.When Giovanni Strozzi saw this astonishment, he wrote the following poem: "The night, which you see sleeping charmingly, was carved in this rock by an angel. she sleeps, therefore she lives. If you do not believe, wake her up, and she will speak to you."