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The men did not object to his sketching them while they went about their work, but no one could be persuaded to come to his studio to pose.
He was told to ask for Rabbi Melzi at the synagogue on Saturday afternoon.
Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.
He was reading from the Talmud with a group of men from his congregation.
When Michelangelo explained why he had come, Rabbi Melzi replied gravely:
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