Then he kept me two years at Bologna casting his statue in bronze, which has been destroyed.

After that I returned to Rome and stayed with him until his death, always keeping my house open without post or pension, living on the money for the tomb, since I had no other income.

After the death of Julius, Aginensis wanted me to go on with it, but on a larger scale.

So I brought the marbles to the Macello dei Corvi, and got that part of the mural scheme finished which is now walled in at S.Pietro in Vincoli, and made the figures which I have at home still.
Meanwhile, Leo, not wishing me to work at the tomb, pretended that he wanted to complete the facade of S.Lorenzo at Florence, and begged me of the Cardinal.
"To continue my history of the tomb of Julius, I say that when he changed his mind about building it in his lifetime, some shiploads of marble came to the Ripa, which I had ordered a short while before from Carrara, and as I could not get money from the Pope to pay the freightage, I had to borrow 150 or 200 ducats from Baldassare Balducci--that is, from the bank of Jacopo Gallo.

At the same time workmen came from Florence, some of whom are still alive; and I furnished the house which Julius gave me behind S.Caterina with beds and other furniture for the men, and what was wanted for the work of the tomb.