\qj \b0 "...in the story of the Deluge where many dead people appear - people terrified by the terror of those days try as much as possible to save their lives. Hence, from the head of those figures it is possible to understand that life is prey of de
ath, as well as of fear, terror and scorn for everything. One can pity the many who try to help each other and survive: among whom there is one embracing a person half dead and trying to save him - how nature shows it best."\par
\i0 (Giorgio Vasari, Vit
a di Michelangelo Buonarruoti fiorentino, 1568, publisher Bettarini - Barocchi 1987, p.42)\par