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Michelangelo wanted the tomb surmounted by the Pietà, now in the cathedral museum (see page 61), but the Florentines almost didn’t get even his body — they had to smuggle it out of Rome.
Despite uprisings such as that of the Ciompi (wool-workers), the resilient Florentines were well-fed and highly literate compared to the rest of the country.
The church is also revered by Florentines as the last resting place of many great Italians.
At the Carnival of 1494, he shamed the Florentines into throwing their “vanities” — not only clothes, jewelry, and cosmetics, but books and paintings, with Botticelli contributing some of his own — onto a giant fire on the Piazza della Signoria.
Standing against a hostile world of cruel Philistines, Florentines loved to identify with the beauty and courage of the poetic young giant-killer.