Dear Friend, I hope you are doing well in your life, and I hope you and your wife are happy together. I remember that we were born the same day and in the same place, March 6, 1475 in Caprese, we were like real brothers but then you left and somehow we met again in Florence in Domenico Ghirlandaio's workshop, we were 13 at that time and I left school because I did not like it and my father unwillingly sent me to study in Ghirlandaio's workshop, and I'm thankful because I met you again and I got to study the basics of fresco painting, we studied together sculpture in the San Marco garden, I'm sorry that I left you after 3 years and I hope you know that it's because Lorenzo De' Medici invited me to be his guest in his palace. While I was staying in the palace I didn't make many friends and they often thought that I was arrogant. I heard that they are describing my attitude as my “terribilità," my terrifying power (Spence, David 4). I lived in the palace for 2 years until Lorenzo died, and since his son hates me I left Florence and went to Bologna, but after a year I came back because I felt that many artists hated me there. I remember when I carved a cupid and you sold it as an antique to a cardinal in Rome, but when the cardinal found out he was not upset but impressed, and that's why he sent me to come to Rome. When I arrived in Rome I was asked to carve a statue for a banker named Jacopo Gallo, I carved the Greek God of wine and the statue was a success (Michelangelo Buonarroti Bacco). Before going back to Florence, cardinal Lagraulas commissioned me to carve a Madonna and Child, and after a year I finished carving la Pietà. After returning back to Florence I found myself famous and the city council asked me to carve a colossal David, I locked myself in a workshop and worked for three years. Even if other artists opposed, I insisted that the statue should stand before the Palazzo Vecchio and it took forty men, five days to move i