“[God] sent...”: Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists, translated by Julia Bondanella and Peter Bondanella (New York: Oxford, 1998), 414.
“The magnificent man...”: Quoted in Jerry Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 150.
“Avaricious and grasping...”: Quoted in James Beck, Three Worlds of Michelangelo (New York: Norton, 1999), 94.
“Well built...”: Ascanio Condivi, The Life of Michelangelo, translated by Alice Sedgwick Wohl (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), 208.
“I record that on this day...” Quoted in George Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 9.
“If I have any...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 415.
“Although he profited...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 9.
“go off to the fish market...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 9–10.
“Buonarroti had the habit...”: Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, translated by George Bull (London: Folio Society, 1970), 42.
“Oh, you have made...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 9.
“If you buried...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 423.
“did not recognize...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 423.
“As the admirable...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 474.
“And I tell you...”: Matthew 16:18–19 (New International Version).
“found it so...”: Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar, 106.
“the receptacle of...”: Quoted in Beck, Three Worlds, 94.
“On Sunday the Cardinal came...”: Quoted in Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 34.
“He was very intimate...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 17.
“looks drunken, brutal, and...”: Harry Buxton Forman, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, vol. 7 (London: Reeves and Turner, 1880).
“The sculptor in creating...”: Quoted in William E. Wallace, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture (Westport, Conn.: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1998), 13.
Michelangelo worked on...: From G. M. Helms, “The Materials and Techniques of Italian Renaissance Sculpture,” in Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture, edited by Sarah Blake McHam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 20.
Sonnet is from Michelangelo Buonarroti, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, translated by Creighton Gilbert and edited by Robert Linscott (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980), 28.
“helmet made of pasteboard...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 475.
“I Jacopo Gallo...”: Quoted in Linda Murray, Michelangelo: His Life, Work and Times (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1984), 20.
“On Holy Saturday...”: Complete Poems and Letters, 191.
“Forgive me...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 35–38.
“No sooner had [Michelangelo pulled]...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 426–37.
“I know nothing...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 438.
“I say and affirm...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 264.
“I find I have...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 260.
“This statue alone...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 77.
“No block of marble...”: Michelangelo Buonarroto, Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry, translated by George Bull and Peter Porter (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 153.
“One who knows...”: Quoted in Beck, Three Worlds of Michelangelo, 159.
“Until you have seen...”: John Wolfgang von Goethe, Italian Journey, translated by W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Meyer (New York: Schocken, 1968).
“Sixtus drove the darkness away...”: Quoted in Michelangelo and Raphael in the Vatican (Vatican City: Ufficio Vendita Pubblicazioni e Riproduzioni dei Musei Vaticani, 1995), 16.
“Holy Father...”: Beck, Three Worlds of Michelangelo, 176–77.
“realized that Michelangelo...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 57.
“In the upper part...”: Quoted in Murray, Michelangelo, 59.
“While he was painting...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 57.
“He constantly wore boots...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 481.
7“To make it short...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 202.
“Attend to living...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 206.
“On another occasion...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 450.
“declaring that such acts...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 450.
“When it satisfies me...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 442.
“if he were really bad...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 208.
“I said to myself...”: quoted in Murray, Michelangelo, 63.
Sonnet to John: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 5.
“The opinion...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 57.
“This greatly disturbed...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 57.
“I work harder...”: Quoted in Murray, Michelangelo, 66.
“It will look poor...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 58.
“the knees of that figure...”: Quoted in William E. Wallace, “Michelangelo’s Risen Christ,” Sixteenth Century Journal 28(4):1251.
“I live here in great...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 207.
Sonnet to Tommaso de’ Cavalieri: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 51.
“If it is really true...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 253.
“I promise you...”: Quoted in Murray, Michelangelo, 154.
“I have often heard...”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 105.
“a poor man...”: Quoted in Beck, Three Worlds of Michelangelo, 10.
Madrigal to Vittoria Colonna: Complete Poems and Selected Letters. 131.
“I have wished to...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 268.
“I have had this desire...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 460.
Known to be a shabby dresser...: This anecdote is from Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 477.
“In desperate shape...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 462.
“Is it possible...”: Quoted in Murray, Michelangelo, 161.
“some of the drawings...”: Quoted in Murray, Michelangelo, 162.
“The evil, foolish...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 57.
“school for artists...”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 295.
“Oh, how many men...”: Quoted in Marchia B. Hall, editor, Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment ” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 33.
“Tell the pope...”: Quoted in Murray, Michelangelo, 166.
“Painting is to be...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 282.
“I behold this noble...”: Quoted in Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 119.
“If Titian...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 501.
“I call God to witness...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 310.
“disegno angelico”: Quoted in William L. MacDonald, The Pantheon (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976), 133.
“after the pagan filth...”: Quoted in MacDonald, The Pantheon, 14.
“It is certain...”: Quoted in Charles De Tolnay, The Art and Thought of Michelangelo, translated by Nan Buranelli (New York: Pantheon, 1964), 91.
“Why does not...”: Quoted in Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar, 109.
“The circle he puts...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 271.
“On the matter...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 290.
“Michelangelo Buonarroti is...”: Quoted in Murray, Michelangelo, 210.
“Columns in the colonnade...”: from “Christmas Eve” by Robert Browning in Christmas Eve and Easter Day (New York: Classic Books, 2000).
“You are aware...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 315.
“As for how I am...”: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, 312.
“If you had with...”: Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry, 156.
“But who is the man...”: Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry, 62.
“But Heaven has taken...”: Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry, 149.
“You must value...”: Quoted in William E. Wallace, “A Week in the Life of Michelangelo,” in Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture, edited by Sarah Blake McHam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 210.
“I have seen Michelangelo...”: Quoted in Wallace, Michelangelo, 28.
“I am an old...”: Quoted in Leo Steinberg, Michelangelo’s Last Paintings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975), 42.
“I am so old...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 479.
“I am at the twenty-fourth...”: Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry, 303.
“He now goes about...”: Quoted in Wallace, Michelangelo, 29.
“My course of life...”: Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry, 159.
“I see...”: Michelangelo: Life, Letters, and Poetry, 316–17.
“my hand no longer...”: Quoted in Beck, Three Worlds of Michelangelo, 211.
“O Daniele, I am done...”: Quoted in Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 413.
“This afternoon that...”: Quoted in Wallace, Michelangelo, 29.
“attended by the entire...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 482.
“shipped like merchandise...”: Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 482.
“head, father and...”: Beck, Three Worlds of Michelangelo, 3.
“a long fur coat...”: Beck, Three Worlds of Michelangelo, 221–22.