Yet you’ve tired me out these thirty years…and you know I’ve always thought about you and helped you whenever I could. How can you go around saying that I turned you out? Don’t you see what a reputation you’re giving me when they can say I turned you out? That’s all I needed, on top of my worries about other things, and all for your sake! A nice way you have of thanking me!
—Michelangelo writes to his father, is totally annoyed with him, 1521






