The giant was to surmount the roof of the Medicean Palace, with its face turned in that direction and its back to the house of Luigi della Stufa.

Being so huge, it would have to be composed of separate pieces fitted together.

Michelangelo speedily knocked this absurd plan on the head in a letter which gives a good conception of his dry and somewhat ponderous humour.
"About the Colossus of forty cubits, which you tell me is to go or to be placed at the corner of the loggia in the Medicean garden, opposite the corner of Messer Luigi della Stufa, I have meditated not a little, as you bade me.

In my opinion that is not the proper place for it, since it would take up too much room on the roadway.

I should prefer to put it at the other, where the barber's shop is.