No more.

Let me know, as I told you above.
"From MICHAEL ANGELO, in Rome."(107) [Image #18] THE DELUGE A DETAIL, SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME (_Reproduced by permission from a photograph by Sig.

D.Anderson, Rome_) Truly his family did all they could to disturb his mind during this important period of the development of his greatest work.

The mind that wrote the following letter to Giovan Simone cannot have been in a good state for work; but as he never lets a thought about his art appear in his letters, so, no doubt, when once the mood of work was upon him, all other thoughts were left without the workshop door: "ROME, _July_ 1508.
"GIOVAN SIMONE,--It is said that when one does good to a good man it makes him become better, but a bad man becomes worse.

I have tried now many years with words and deeds of kindness to bring you to live honestly and in peace with your father and the rest of us.
You grow continually worse.