Perhaps he knew that he had played on every gamut of that lyre.

Emerging from the sphere of the sensuous, where ideas take plastic embodiment, he grappled in this final stage of his career with harmonical ratios and direct verbal expression, where ideas are disengaged from figurative form.

The men and women, loved by him so long, so wonderfully wrought into imperishable shapes, "nurslings of immortality," recede.

In their room arise, above the horizon of his intellect, the cupola of S.Peter's and a few imperishable poems, which will live as long as Italian claims a place among the languages.

There is no comparison to be instituted between his actual achievements as a builder and a versifier.