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Show FlflST WORK OF A GREAT AF1TIST. Meellee ot l-r.tn. MKI tnit the entg ny Mlehtl Ael. On(emoon ihJ)tike Lnrenwd Jfedlel, In walking through the garden earn tipon young Michael Angelo. who wa biiilly chltellng hi lint pleeool aeiilptnrr Til duke taw In Ibetton tb faro of a faun which th boy wa copying Jmm an antique iiuuk, but whlcli. with M nttial linpallenc ot Imllatlrni, be wn (linlijInK to a to ebow lhiien linii.l lietlL "How I It," told the duke, drawing elowr, "Hint )oti btie given your faun a com plel et of teeth! Don't you Ltiow that Mich an ell fellow wa euro to have loit tome of theinr Mil hai I Ali-gelo Ali-gelo at one mw the Juttlco ot tho rrlt lelniu ArtMa are not nlwayt nndy to receive ad verm criticism. Mkluel Angelo lllmelt wn. quick teiup red an 1 linrJ to move A hot word to ono of lil Iwy companion on n certain oecAtlon brought to tevem a blow In the furw that all truthful r-trnll r-trnll of ill.-liui'l Alirelo lime tlhee bad lothow him with n bnikeii ntc Hut tho iluke't rrltlclfin wa klnlly ghen, an 1 wa plainly warranted, mid the young tc-ulptor could lianlly wutt until the dnk walked on Iteforo tiegln nlng tho ev.rrectlon. When the duke taw tho faun' faeo again be found inof th teeth gone and tbo empty toeket rklllfully chlvteil out. Dellghleil with Uil evidence of tb Ud wlllingne to telxo and act upon a tiiggeellon, ami linpmtnl anew by lil nrtl.tlo tklll, the iluk made In qulrlee, Icnmcd tluit J 1 Wine I Angelo bad liorrnwnl ttune arid tool on bit own account In lit pagenut to begin Miilpliiro (bewa lint Htnt drawing from the ttatuary) and ended by tend Ing for the Iwy'a father. 'Hi mult of th connltalloii wa tliatliodtiketnok Michael Angelo under lil own tpcclol (introiiago and protection, and wa to well ple.wd alter liolind don It that nnfaor teciind too groat to bestow iiMiitlioeiiergi'tlo)uiingnrtlt. Michael Angelo, then only IS, not only received a key lo the tlanlen of Keulpture nluj an apirtiiKint In the Misllel nlice It tolf, but bad a plan- ut lb dnke'i table. In fact n mil attachment grew up between Mltlmel Aligelo and the duke, who frequently called tho boy to lil ow u moina, when lio wiHild open n i-ablmtof gem and Intaglio, tcvk hi yimiur vltltor'a tiplnlon nnd enter Into long uiid eonlldentlal talk, Ateinnder DlacklnrJt. Mcbola. |
