Poor fellow! I am sorry for him since, after all, he is but young." Such was the end of Pietro Urbano.

Michelangelo was certainly unfortunate with his apprentices.

One cannot help fancying he may have spoiled them by indulgence.

Vasari, mentioning Pietro, calls him "a person of talent, but one who never took the pains to work." Frizzi brought the Christ Triumphant into its present state, patching up what "the lither lad" from Pistoja had boggled.

Buonarroti, who was sincerely attached to Varj, and felt his artistic reputation now at stake, offered to make a new statue.