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XLVIII. Now to return, Michael Angelo having been called to Rome by Pope Clement, thereupon began the affair with the Duke of Urbino’s agents concerning the Tomb of Julius. Clement, who wished to employ him in Florence, tried by every means to free him, and gave him for his attorney one Messer Tommaso, of Prato, who afterwards became Datario.
Commend me to him, and I commend myself to you. "Your MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTA, in Rome. "The 23 day of February, 1556." Was ever servant loved after this fashion by his master? Urbino appointed Michael Angelo as one of his executors, and the old man fulfilled his irksome duties with fidelity. Urbino’s brother was Raphael’s well-known pupil Il Fattore.
Cornelia, Urbino’s wife, corresponded about the children and other affairs. Michael Angelo had to approve her choice of a second husband, and interviewed him, and made him promise to be a second father to Urbino’s children.
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