Soon, however, Michelangelo began to send poems, which Angelini acknowledges (September 6): "I have received the very welcome letter you wrote me, together with your graceful and beautiful sonnet, of which I kept a copy, and then sent it on to M.Thomao.He was delighted to possess it, being thereby assured that God has deigned to bestow upon him the friendship of a man endowed with so many noble gifts as you are." Again he writes (October 18): "Yours of the 12th is to hand, together with M.Thomao's letter and the most beautiful sonnets.

I have kept copies, and sent them on to him for whom they were intended, because I know with what affection he regards all things that pertain to you.

He promised to send an answer which shall be enclosed in this I now am writing.

He is counting not the days merely, but the hours, till you return." In another letter, without date, Angelini says, "I gave your messages to M.Thomao, who replied that your presence would be dearer to him than your writing, and that if it seems to you a thousand years, to him it seems ten thousand, till you come.

I received your gallant (galante) and beautiful sonnet; and though you said nothing about it, I saw at once for whom it was intended, and gave it to him.
Like everything of yours, it delighted him.