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Updated: August 27, 2024
Michael Angelo, while living like a poor man in Rome, sent money to, and purchased land for, his family in Florence, and helped to establish Buonarroto in business, but they were never satisfied, and his letters to his father and Giovan Simone show how his mind was troubled. There is a letter in the British Museum that belongs to this summer of 1508.
On the 18th of February 1508 he writes to Buonarroto that he is kicking his heels, having received orders from the Pope to stay until the bronze was placed. Three days later that is, upon the 21st of February the Pope's portrait was hoisted to its pedestal above the great central door of S. Petronio. It remained there rather less than three years.
Another letter tells of a visit from the Pope, troubles with his workmen, and his usual generosity to his brothers and father. "To BUONARROTO DI LODOVICO SIMONE, in Firenze "To be delivered at the shop of Strozzi, wool merchant, in the street of the Porta Rossa.
III. The reason why the family in Florence changed their name from Canossa to de’Buonarroti was because the name Buonarroto was usual in their house from age to age, almost always, down to the time of Michael Angelo himself, who had a brother called Buonarroto, and many of these Buonarroti being of the Signori, that is of the supreme magistracy of the Republic; the said brother especially, who was of that body at the time when Pope Leo was in Florence, as may be seen in the annals of the city; this name held by so many of them became a surname for the whole family, the more easily as it is the custom of Florence in the lists of voters and other nomination papers, after the proper name of the citizen, to add that of his father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather, and even of those further removed.
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