It is you, not he, who are the ignoramus and the rascal.

Get hence out of my sight, and bad luck to you!' When the fellow did not move, he was cast forth by the servants, as Michelangelo used to relate, with good round kicks and thumpings.

So the Pope, having spent the surplus of his bile upon the bishop, took Michelangelo apart and pardoned him.

Not long afterwards he sent for him and said: 'I wish you to make my statue on a large scale in bronze.

I mean to place it on the facade of San Petronio.' When he went to Rome in course of time, he left 1000 ducats at the bank of Messer Antonmaria da Lignano for this purpose.