A man dies but once, and does not come back again to patch up things ill done.

You have put off till the death to do this.
May God assist you!" In another draft of this letter Lodovico is accused of going about the town complaining that he was once a rich man, and that Michelangelo had robbed him.

Still, we must not take this for proved; one of the great artist's main defects was an irritable suspiciousness, which caused him often to exaggerate slights and to fancy insults.

He may have attached too much weight to the grumblings of an old man, whom at the bottom of his heart he loved dearly.
III Clement, immediately after his election, resolved on setting Michelangelo at work in earnest on the Sacristy.

At the very beginning of January he also projected the building of the Laurentian Library, and wrote, through his Roman agent, Giovanni Francesco Fattucci, requesting to have two plans furnished, one in the Greek, the other in the Latin style.