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publishes an essay by Leto Puliti on this music with the score of three of
the madrigals. Many of Michael Angelo's poetical compositions may be
referred to this period of comparative inaction as to painting and
sculpture. All through his life he wrote sonnets and poems when his other
work did not proceed quickly.
In 1535 Michael Angelo finally left Florence. His father and his favourite
brother were dead, and so he left the shadow of the great Duomo, all
Florentines love, for ever. At Rome he dreamed a dream of another Dome,
that has given to that city the feature by which we know it best, and to
Romans a possession not less beloved than Bruneleschi's gift to the
Florentines.
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THE HEAD OF THE NIGHT
THE NEW SACRISTY OF SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE
(_By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence_)
When Michael Angelo left, the works at San Lorenzo were all unfinished;
the facade was not begun, the Sagrestia Nuova, the ground plan of which is
similar to Bruneleschi's Sagrestia Vecchia, was left in the rough, and the
Library he designed to hold the priceless Medician manuscripts, collected
by Cosimo Pater Patriae and Lorenzo the Magnificent, now known as the
"Biblioteca Laurenziana," was only begun. As Michael Angelo's designs and
working drawings were of the roughest description, and he usually left a
great deal to be settled after he had seen the effect of the earlier part
of his works, we cannot blame him only for certain faults, such as, for
instance, the awkward approach to the Library.
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