Chapter 15 Three Despair - 3

Michelangelo replied: "Sleep is sweet. Bliss to be a rock, so long as there is crime and shame in the world. To be invisible, to be unaware, is my greatest joy: so wake me not, O! Speak softly Let's go!" The sixteenth and seventeenth poems of volume one hundred and ninety-nine of the collection of poems. —Fry puts the two poems in 1545. In another poem he said: "Men can only sleep in the sky, since so many people's happiness can only be realized by one person!" And the subdued Emerald echoed his groan: "In your holy thought Do not be perplexed. Believe that he who deprives me of you will not long enjoy his sin, for he cannot be without fear in his heart. Pleasures of beards, a rich pleasure to lovers, will take them The extinguishment of desires is not like the increase of desires due to suffering." Poems volume 109, forty-eighth.Here Michelangelo imagines the dialogue among the Emerald's exiles.

Here, we should think about the state of mind when Rome was plundered and Emerald fell: the bankruptcy and collapse of reason.Since then, the spirits of many people have fallen into the abyss of misery, unable to recover after a fall. Piombo becomes a hedonistic skeptic: "I've come to the point where the universe can crumble, I can be indifferent, I laugh at everything...I don't feel like I was before Rome was taken, I can no longer be what I was." February 2, 1531 On the 14th, Piombo wrote to Michelle, the first letter written to him after Rome was plundered: "God knows how happy I am, after so many disasters, so many hardships and dangers, the mighty master With his compassion, we are still alive; when I think of this, I can't help saying that this is a miracle... At this moment, my fellow countrymen, since they have been in and out of water and fire, and have experienced unexpected things, Let us thank God, and at least try our best to make it pass in peace. As long as luck is so abominable and painful, we should not rely on it." At that time their letters were censored, So he asked Michelangelo to forge a signature.

Michelangelo wanted to kill himself. "If it is possible to commit suicide, it is the right that should be bestowed on a man who, full of faith, lives a miserable life like a slave." Anthology of Poems, Vol. XXXVIII. His spirit is in turmoil.In June 1531 he fell ill.Clement VII tried his best to comfort the ground, but in vain.He asked his secretary and Piombo to advise him not to work too much, to try to be temperate, to go for a walk now and then, and not to suppress himself like a sinner.Letter from Pier-Paul Marzi to Mie, June 20, 1531; Piombo to Mie, June 16, 1531.In the autumn of 1531 there were fears for his life.A friend of his wrote to Vallaure: "Michelangelo is weak and emaciated. I recently spoke with Bugiardini and Antonio Mini: we agreed that if he was not carefully cared for he would die. Not long. He works too much, eats too little and sleeps less. For a year he has been plagued by headaches and heart troubles." September 29, 1531, Giovanni Letter to Vallauris from Battista di Paolo Mini. — Clement VII was seriously disturbed: on November 21, 1531, he ordered Michelangelo to be forbidden to do anything other than the tomb of Julius II and the tomb of the Medici He thought that he would be able to nourish his body and "enable him to live longer for the glory of Rome, his family, and himself."

He protected him from Vallauris and the general beggars begging for works of art, because they kept asking Michelangelo to do new jobs for them.He told him: "When someone asks you for a painting, you should tie your pen under your feet, draw four marks on the ground, and say: 'The painting is finished.'" November 20, 1531 Six Days Bevenuto della Volpa Elegant Mie Book.When the heirs of Julius II threatened Michelangelo, he intervened.On March 15, 1532, Piombo said to Michelle: "If you don't have the pope to back you up, they will jump up and eat you like poisonous snakes." In 1532, Michelangelo Luo and them signed a fourth contract concerning the tomb of Julius: Michelangelo promised to rebuild a very small mausoleum, here, only the six statues that were later erected in front of St. Peter's Temple in Vincoli, these six The statues were started but not finished (Moses, Victory, two Slaves and Boboli Grotto).It was completed in three years at his own expense, and he had to pay two thousand gold coins to repay the money he had previously received from Julius II and his descendants.Piombo wrote to Michelangelo and said: "It is enough to make people smell some of you in the work." On April 6, 1532, Piombo wrote to Michelangelo. —sad condition, since he signed the contract to prove the bankruptcy of his great plan, and he has to pay for it!But what Michelangelo proves year after year in each of his desperate works is the bankruptcy of his life, the bankruptcy of his whole "life."

After Julius II's mausoleum plans went bankrupt, plans for the Medici's tomb followed suit, and on September 25, 1534, Clement VII died.At that time, Michelangelo, due to great luck, was not in the city of Emerald.For a long time he lived a life of anxiety in Florence; for Grand Duke Alexander de Medici hated him.Not because of his respect for the Pope, he had already sent someone to kill him.On several occasions, Clement VII had to defend Michelangelo from his nephew, Alessandro de' Medici.Piombo told Michaelis that "the speeches of the Pope and his nephew were full of violent rage, terrible frenzy, and in a tone so severe that it is difficult to quote." (August 16, 1533) Ever since Michelangelo refused to build a fortress for the whole city to dominate the city, the archduke's resentment against him has deepened:—but for Michelangelo so timid It was indeed a courageous act, and a gesture of great devotion to his mother country; for the building of a fortress that overwhelmed the city was a proof of Ferencía's submission to the Medici!

Michelangelo returned to Rome on September 23, 1534, where he remained until his death.On March 20, 1546, Michelangelo enjoyed the status of the Roman gentry.Twenty-one years had passed since he left Rome.During these twenty-one years he made three unfinished statues on the tomb of Julius II, seven unfinished statues on the tomb of the Medici, the unfinished nave of the Chapel of Lorenzo, The unfinished Christ at the Temple of Santa Maria della Minerva, the unfinished Apollo for Baccio Valori.He lost his health, his vigor and his confidence in his art and his country.He lost a brother he loved the most.Refers to Bonarotto who died in the plague in 1528.He lost his filial father.June 1534.He wrote two poems in memory of the two, unfinished like the rest of his work, but full of the passion of pain and longing for death: "... Heaven delivered you from our misery. Pity me Come on, I who live as if I were dead!

There is nothing in the world that can detain him: art, ambition, warmth, any kind of hope can not make him attached.He was sixty years old, and his life seemed to be over.He is alone, he no longer believes in his work; he is lovesick for "death", and he longs to escape at last "the changes of existence and desire", "the atrocities of time" and "the tyranny of necessity and chance". "Poor! Poor! I have been deceived by my days that are gone...I have waited too long...Time flies and I am old. I can no longer repent and reflect beside the dead...I weep in vain... ...no misfortune like lost time..."Poor!Pitiful!When I look back on my past, I can't find a day that belongs to me!False hopes and desires,--I know now,--keep me in chains, make me cry, love, stir, sigh, (for there is no mortal emotion I do not know,) far from the truth ..."Poor! Poor! I go, and know not whither; I am afraid... If I am not in error, (Oh, please God make me err!) I see, Lord, I see, know What an eternal sin I have committed when I did evil by doing good! And I only know hope..." Volume 49 of Poetry Collection.