But you frighten everybody, even Popes!"(124) Michael Angelo seems to have taken exception to the remark, for Sebastiano in his next letter but one says:-- "As to what you reply to me about your terribleness, I for my part do not find you terrible; and if I have not written to you about this, do not wonder, for you do not appear to me terrible except only in art--that is to say, the greatest master that has ever been; so it seems to me if I am in error I am to blame.

I have no more to say.

Christ keep you safe.

9th day of November, 1520.
Remember me to friend Leonardo and to Master Pier Francesco.
"Your most faithful gossip, "BASTIANO, Painter, in Rome.
"The Lord Michael Angelo de Bonarotis, the most worthy sculptor, Florence."(125) After Michael Angelo had been dismissed from the work of the facade of San Lorenzo he appears to have remained quietly at Florence, possibly engaged upon the marbles for the Tomb of Julius II.

About the same time, at the instigation of the Cardinal de' Medici, he began to design the new sacristy and the tombs at San Lorenzo.
[Image #50] THE PROPHET JONAH SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME (_By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence_) In the Ricordi, which run from April 9 to August 19, 1521, he says that on April 9 he received two hundred ducats from the Cardinal de' Medici to go to Carrara and lodge there, to quarry marbles for the tombs which are to be placed in the new sacristy at San Lorenzo.