Alexander Lee > Quotes

“Michelangelo wrote in a poem years later: Around my door, I find huge piles of shit since those who gorge on grapes or take a purge could find no better place to void their guts in.”
― Alexander Lee, The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty

“Having banned them from all professions, Pope Paul IV used Jews as slave laborers in Rome,”
― Alexander Lee, The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty

“Michelangelo continually had trouble with his assistants and had to sack several for poor workmanship, laziness, or even - in one particular case - because the lad in question was ‘a stuck-up little turd’.”
― Alexander Lee, The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty