Figure 3-5. Michelangelo, Moses, Chapel of St. Peter in Chains. (Alinari/Art Resource, NY)


recapture the presence of his Amme-Anna. Certainly much of his pleasure here went back to his childhood.

     Some very specific support for this interpretation comes from a comment Freud made about the women of Rome: “The women in the crowd are very beautiful, so far as they are Roman. Roman women are, strange to say, even beautiful when they are ugly, but not many of them are that.”115


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