o Vecchietti has it; and so also four pieces of the cartoons
for the chapel, with nudes and Prophets, brought back by the sculptor
Benvenuto Cellini, and now in the possession of the heirs of Girolamo
degli Albizzi.

It became necessary for Michelagnolo to go to Rome to see Pope
Clement, who, although angry with him, yet, as the friend of every
talent, forgave him everything, and gave him orders that he should
return to Florence and have the library and sacristy of S. Lorenzo
completely finished; and, in order to shorten that work, a vast number
of statues that were to be included in it were distributed among other
masters. Two he allotted to Tribolo, one to Raffaello da Montelupo,
and one to Fra Giovanni Agnolo, the Servite friar, all sculptors; and
he gave them assistance in these, making rough models in clay for each
of them. Whereupon they all worked valiantly, and he, also, caused
work to be pursued on the library, and thus the ceiling was finished
in carved woodwork, which was executed after his models by the hands
of the Florentines Carota and Tasso, excellent carvers and also
masters of carpentry; and likewise the shelves for the books, which
were executed at that time by Battista del Cinque and his friend
Ciappino, good masters in that profession. And in order to give the
work its final perfection there was summoned to Florence the divine
Giovanni da Udine, who, together with others his assistants and also
some Florentine masters, decorated the tribune with stucco; and they
all sought with great solicitude to give completion to that vast
undertaking.

Now, just as Michelagnolo was about to have the statues carried into
execution, at that very time the Pope took it into his head to have
him near his person, being desirous to have the walls of the Chapel of
Sixtus painted, where Michelagnolo had painted the vaulting for Julius
II, his nephew. On the principal wall, where the altar is, Clement
wished him to paint the Universal Judgment, to the end that he might
display in that scene all that the art of design could achieve, and
opposite to it, on the other wall, over the principal door, he had
commanded that he should depict the scene when Lucifer was expelled
for his pride from Heaven, and all those Angels who sinned with him
were hurled after him into the centre of Hell: of which inventions it
was found that Michelagnolo many years before had made various
sketches and designs, one of which was afterwards carri