It is also inconsistent with the fact that he was expected in Arezzo at the beginning of September.

I shall have to return later on to the _Ricordo_ in question, which has an important bearing on the next and most dramatic episode in his biography.
III Michelangelo must certainly have been at Florence soon after the middle of September.

One of those strange panics to which he was constitutionally subject, and which impelled him to act upon a suddenly aroused instinct, came now to interrupt his work at S.
Miniato, and sent him forth into outlawry.

It was upon the 21st of September that he fled from Florence, under circumstances which have given considerable difficulty to his biographers.

I am obliged to disentangle the motives and to set forth the details of this escapade, so far as it is possible for criticism to connect them into a coherent narrative.