To me it will suffice if it be something worthy.
"I do not reply to all you say, for lo Spina comes shortly to Rome, and will answer your letter by word of mouth, and more in detail than I can with the pen.
"Your MICHAEL ANGELO, Sculptor, in Florence." This letter had its desired effect, nothing more was heard of the colossus.
The Sack of Rome in 1527 by the rabble of Germany and Spain, called the Imperial army, naturally stopped all artistic work, for war is the worst enemy of art.

Clement was besieged in the Castle Saint Angelo for nine months, and the Medici lost their power in Florence.

The Cardinal of Cortona, with the young princes Ippolito and Alessandro de' Medici, fled, and Niccolo Capponi was elected President of the Popular Government.
Michael Angelo was in Florence all this time.

A Ricordo given in Lettere, p.

598, says: "I record how, some days ago, Piero di Filippo Gondi asked to enter the new sacristy at San Lorenzo to hide there certain goods of his because of the peril in which we now find ourselves.