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

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