By this time Pope Julius had changed his mind, and no longer
wished to have it done. I, not knowing this and going to him for
money, was chased from the room; and for this insult I immediately
left Rome, and everything I had in my house went to the bad; and
these marbles which I had bought lay on the piazza of St. Peter's
until the creation of Pope Leo; and on every side things went
wrong. Among other things that I can prove, two pieces, of four
braccia and a half each, on the Ripa were stolen from me by
Agostino Chigi, which had cost me more than fifty gold ducats; and
these could be claimed for, because there are witnesses. But to
return to the marbles. From the time that I went for them, and
that I remained at Carrara, until I was driven from the Palace,
was more than a year, for which period I never received anything,
and I paid out many tens of ducats.
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CREATION OF MAN
SISTINE CHAPEL
(_By permission of Messrs. Braun, Clement & Co., in Dornach,
Alsace_)
"Afterwards, the first time Pope Julius went to Bologna, I was
obliged to take my courage in both hands and go there to beg his
pardon; then he ordered me to make his portrait in bronze, which
was seated, about seven braccia high. He asking me what it would
cost, I said I believed I could cast it for a thousand ducats, but
that it was not my art and that I could not promise.
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