AB XIII, 110 Qui si fa elmi

The sonnet was probably wrote in 1497 after the ouster of Savonarola of Florence, when Michelangelo was in Rome. This is a harsh criticism to Pope Alessandro VI Borgia that in May 1497 had excommunicated the preaching friar, threatening to bun the whole town of Florence. Michelangelo shows a certain fondness for the Savonarola’s ideas and states that the poverty is welcome to Heaven. The artist signed it “Miccelangniolo in Turchia” instead of in Rome, alluding to an earth that it was a danger for the christianity.