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THE ROOF
ascetic in the extreme, and his strong filial
affection is one of his most attractive traits.
He returned to Florence, where he pro-
duced the famous David and other great
works, and in 1505 was again summoned to
Rome by Julius II., and there begun what
his historian and devoted friend, Condivi,
calls, “ The Tragedy of the Sepulchre ”; the
long-protracted, oft-thwarted, and finally
abandoned project of the mausoleum of
Julius. The monument was to have been
a colossal basilica adorned with more than
forty statues, but the design was never
realised, the Moses and two groups of
slaves being all that remain. It would
take too long here to tell of the vicissi-
tudes, the mortifications, and disappoint-
ments, which Michel Angelo underwent at
the hands of the Pope and of jealous com-
panions while engaged on this work. His
letters to his old father at this time are
sad and worried. He cannot get the
money the Pope owes him, his sensitive
and suspicious nature is drawn into quarrels,
and, moreover, he hears that his good-for-
THE ROOF
ascetic in the extreme, and his strong filial
affection is one of his most attractive traits.
He returned to Florence, where he pro-
duced the famous David and other great
works, and in 1505 was again summoned to
Rome by Julius II., and there begun what
his historian and devoted friend, Condivi,
calls, “ The Tragedy of the Sepulchre ”; the
long-protracted, oft-thwarted, and finally
abandoned project of the mausoleum of
Julius. The monument was to have been
a colossal basilica adorned with more than
forty statues, but the design was never
realised, the Moses and two groups of
slaves being all that remain. It would
take too long here to tell of the vicissi-
tudes, the mortifications, and disappoint-
ments, which Michel Angelo underwent at
the hands of the Pope and of jealous com-
panions while engaged on this work. His
letters to his old father at this time are
sad and worried. He cannot get the
money the Pope owes him, his sensitive
and suspicious nature is drawn into quarrels,
and, moreover, he hears that his good-for-