pletely dismayed the craftsmen and the arts
both in Rome and in Florence; and while Adrian VI was alive
Michelagnolo gave his attention in Florence to the tomb of Julius. But
after the death of Adrian Clement VII was elected, who was no less
desirous than Leo and his other predecessors to leave his fame
established by the arts of architecture, sculpture, and painting. At
this time, which was the year 1525, Giorgio Vasari was taken as a
little boy to Florence by the Cardinal of Cortona, and placed with
Michelagnolo to learn art. But Michelagnolo was then summoned to Rome
by Pope Clement VII, who had made a beginning with the library of S.
Lorenzo and also the new sacristy, in which he proposed to place the
marble tombs that he was having made for his forefathers; and he
resolved that Vasari should go to work with Andrea del Sarto until he
should himself be free again, and went in person to Andrea's workshop
to present him.

Michelagnolo departed for Rome in haste, harassed once again by
Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino, the nephew of Pope Julius, who
complained of him, saying that he had received sixteen thousand crowns
for the above-named tomb, yet was living a life of pleasure in
Florence; and he threatened in his anger that, if Michelagnolo did not
give his attention to the work, he would make him rue it. Having
arrived in Rome, Pope Clement, who wished to make use of him, advised
him to draw up his accounts with the agents of the Duke, believing
that after all that he had done he must be their creditor rather than
their debtor; and so the matter rested. After discussing many things
together, they resolved to finish completely the library and new
sacristy of S. Lorenzo in Florence. Michelagnolo therefore departed
from Rome, and raised the cupola that is now to be seen, causing it to
be wrought in various orders of composition; and he had a ball with
seventy-two faces made by the goldsmith Piloto, which is very
beautiful. It happened, while Michelagnolo was raising the cupola,
that he was asked by some friends, "Should you not make your lantern
very different from that of Filippo Brunelleschi?" And he answered
them, "Different it can be made with ease, but better, no." He made
four tombs in that sacristy, to adorn the walls and to contain the
bodies of the fathers of the two Popes, the elder Lorenzo and his
brother Giuliano, and those of Giuliano, the brother of Leo, and of
Duke Lorenzo, his nephew. And since he wished