AВ short time ago, everyone was amazed atВ his relief Madonna onВ the Stairs.' вЂAs IВ suspected! AsВ IВ told His Eminence: your pseudo-antique Cupid isВ actually aВ present-day production IВ guess itвЂ™s byВ that Florentine prodigy, some Michelangelo Buonarroti. Hardly had the visitor seen the picture that heВ rejoiced and got excited. HeВ summoned the sculptor, who longed for real work, toВ his residence and commissioned aВ figure ofВ Heracles made ofВ - snow! Swearing like hell, Michelangelo made the snow effigy look like PieroВ - toВ feel malicious joy when itВ melt down the next day. And that stupid doll ofВ aВ man, Piero Medici, with not aВ scrap ofВ his father LorenzoвЂ™s dignity, glamour, and love for art,В - onВ his return toВ Florence, he, again, drove Michelangelo wild. The money they brought was not even enough toВ buy low-grade marble. There were some occasional commissionsВ - all minor ones. ToВ his fatherвЂ™s place, asВ heВ had noВ other home. AtВ last, heВ was tired ofВ playing aВ local curiosity, вЂa talking head,' and returned toВ Florence.

HeВ hardly ever failed, for heВ knew the great poem (great inВ length asВ well asВ inВ prominence) byВ heart. HeВ would take upВ the line from where the host had dropped it, and goВ onВ reciting Dante from memory. Michelangelo was well aware what the audience expected from him. Guests having gathered, heВ would open aВ tome of The Divine Comedy, start declaiming DanteвЂ™s terza rimaВ - then cut itВ short and cast aВ meaningful glance atВ the young Florentine. The latter, though, did not feel like showering the young sculptor with commissions. There, heВ was immediately taken under patronage byВ another noblemanВ - Gianfrancesco Aldovrandi, the most important person inВ the city. Michelangelo, for fear ofВ reprisals, fled toВ Venice, and then toВ Bologna. What brilliant prospects there used toВ open! But Lorenzo died, and his successor, the worthless Piero, was exiled from the city byВ the Florentines. SoВ much expected, soВ much hoped for! Indeed, his boy, when adolescent, used toВ beВ in favour with the omnipotent gran maestro ofВ Florence Lorenzo de' Medici, sharing his house like LorenzoвЂ™s son. Ludovico BuonarrotiвЂ™s complaints were not without reason. But, after aВ time, even his father, Ludovico Buonarroti, started dropping the hints: itвЂ™s high time for you, aВ twenty-something-year-old, toВ make aВ proper living ifВ youвЂ™ve got toВ reside inВ your fatherвЂ™s home again.

Not that heВ needed muchВ - inВ fact, heВ lived aВ remarkably ascetic life. A childвЂ™s handFrom Bologna back toВ Florence, Michelangelo came penniless.

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