beaming in every line. As Mr. Symonds has said, "It reveals the power of
Pope Julius and Michelangelo fused into a Jove."

And so the messengers and messages were in vain, and even when the Pope
sent an order to the Gonfaloniere Soderini, the actual ruler of Florence,
to return the artist on pain of displeasure, the matter still
rested--Michelangelo said he was neither culprit nor slave, and would
live where he wished.

At length the matter got so serious that it threatened the political
peace of Florence, and in the goodly company of cardinals, bishops and
chief citizens, Michelangelo was induced to go to Bologna and make peace
with the Pope.

His first task now was a bronze statue of Julius, made, it is stated, as
a partial reproduction of the "Moses." Descriptions of it declare it was
even finer than the "Moses," but alas! it only endured four years, for a
mob evolved it into a cannon to shoot stones, and at the same time ousted
Julius from Bologna.

Michelangelo very naturally seconded the anathematization of the
Bolognese by Julius, not so much for the insult to the Pope as for the
wretched lack of taste they had shown in destroying a work of art. Had
they left the beautiful statue there on its pedestal, Bologna would now
on that account alone be a place of pilgrimage. The cannon they made is
lost and forgotten--buried deep in the sand by its own weight--for Mein
Herr Krupp can make cannon; but, woe betide us! who can make a statue
such as Michelangelo made?

Michelangelo now followed the Pope to Rome and began a work that none