TIL that Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel, which translates as such: ‘I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).’

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57328/michaelangelo-to-giovanni-da-pistoia-when-the-author-was-painting-the-…

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