This, then, was thrown aside, and a new marble had to be attacked.

The statue, now visible at the Minerva, was not finished until the year 1521, when we shall have to return to it again.
There is a point of some interest in the wording of this contract, on which, as facts to dwell upon are few and far between at present, I may perhaps allow myself to digress.

The master is here described as _Michelangelo (di Lodovico) Simoni, Scultore_.

Now Michelangelo always signed his own letters Michelangelo Buonarroti, although he addressed the members of his family by the surname of Simoni.

This proves that the patronymic usually given to the house at large was still Simoni, and that Michelangelo himself acknowledged that name in a legal document.