New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01

49, Asss waters Of the River Tiber. in
Ne N a wild and beautiful mountain country
-. onlv scattered farmhouses ana haiiile's are
,opn6 there stand the runs or cas'le'
- tbe summit OF a wooded rock More man
esoN' nes-es wears ago-on March G. l475-before
~ ~ ella uas ruined. little boy was born tnere
ths ..s named him Michelangelo, which
r. ,,,c,ael the Angel and which English peo-
no'-. s,oIlx nronource Ni-chel-an-je-lo- 1t was
p o-,rorriste name too. FOR the boy grew up 10
" ~ wonderful things that II seemed as II an
-, must have done them, ana people called MN
- divine M!chelangelo. But at that uine no one
VIC re, ne was any different from any other
,,,,e hoy and his father didn't even want MIN 10
=. s,eeren; as We shall see later
y. o.A,o,qslos father was called Luoovlco
.-orti-I co-doyee-co Boo-o-narot-tee- He be-
$3.50 IN m old but poor Florentlne famlly, ana at
80 time his wonderful son was born he was
-. or governor OF this lovely mountain coun-
.. TIE Office lasted only SIX months, and SO soon
s...-ua-d he returned TO his home IN Florence
-. rs son IN the care Of stonecutter's wife
-, Deonle around earned their living IN the quar-
-, an the Etlsdes. and Rfterward Nichelangelo
- - ,he, he got his taste for carving marble
.tstues from ;hese early surroundings
T,rohsbIv this was the only explanation for his
.-ts.,o tastes that he could 1nd, for his father
go not a: all for these things. and even thought
!, q disgrace 10 have a son who was an artist II
:. be5 had MS way We would never have heard of
n,,,bslanselo. for he did all IN his power 10 keep
.,, from spending his time in drawing and in the
so,erv OF boys who more fortunate than he, were
.,r-enticea 10 masters i'm sculpture and painting
~, only The boys father. but his uncles We are
,o,s used 10 beat him severely i'm their efforts to
,rrn HIN from the course that nature had marked
~, for him hut il was Of no avail. Their opposl-
,,or caused the young artist the greatest sor-
VOW" his biographer says. but It could not change
his purpose and at las, Ludoyico saw It was use
less 10 oppose him. 50 he was apprenticed TO the
rarter Ghrlandato Oieer-lan-da-yo).
A, this time the great Lorenzo de Medici-May
s,-chee-was re,ening in Florence, though the city
was called a republic. Lorenzo surrounded himself
with so much sQleudor that he was called Lorenzo
,be Magnl fcenJ and be was wise enough 10 under
stand that nothing could add more glory 10 his own
name than 10 make his court the home of the fine
cts So he gathered around him artists and men
~ learning and De filled his gardens with beautiful
marbles and employed teacher TO instruct the
Young men who came 10 study them. He wished 10
raise the art ~ sculpture in Florence 10 the same
level that painting had attained, and so one day he
went 10 Ghirlarda'o and asked him 10 recommend
10 him TWO OF his most promising pupils 10 study
IN his gardens Ghirlandato named the young
Nichelangelo and. In order 20 learn the use OF
his tools the boy began his work by cutting mar
tles for a library that Lorenzo building While
working in this way he day begged piece OF
refuse marble, and carved from It the head OF
g-nning faun. a mythical creature that was half
man and half goat Lorenzo, passing by, noticed
how well the work was done but said, You have
made this faun quite old but Yet have left him all
his teeth. Do you not know that men Of that great
age are always wanting In one OF two"
Michelangelo then knocked out a tooth from
ne upper Jaw and when Lorenzo saw how cIeverly