It comes upon me in return for the kindness I have shown them.

But what else can one expect from a couple of the basest scoundrelly villains ?" Nanni di Baccio Bigio had, as it seems, good friends at court in Rome.
He was an open enemy of Michelangelo, who, nevertheless, found it difficult to shake him off.

In the history of S.Peter's the man's name will frequently occur.
Three years elapsed.

Paul III.

died, and Michelangelo wrote to his nephew Lionardo on the occasion: "It is true that I have suffered great sorrow, and not less loss, by the Pope's death.