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Whats a pope or two, among friends?

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Whats a pope or two, among friends?

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Everything. Julius II didn’t live much past the completion of the chapel, which paved the way for a couple of Michelangelo’s old cronies to get new names and add to them new numbers. Good times, for an old Medici friend… • 1513: Remeber Giovanni de Medici from the gardens? This year marks his turn wearing the pointy hat as Leo X, and he puts Michelangelo to the task of building a monumental facade for the Medici church of San Lorenzo. • 1520: The money runs out. The pope cancels the contract, but inspires Michelangelo to two other great feats of architecture. He’d get started on them under his other boyhood friend, Clement VII, but would first have to take a break to defend the city of his childhood. Anyone who remembers Castles II knows it takes some major stones to attack the Pope. Nevertheless, in 1527 the troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked Rome, ousted the Medici family from Florence, which declared itself once again a republic, and saw Michelangelo hunkering down

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