There comes into my mind, as in a dream, the image of a certain staircase; but I do not think this can be the one I then designed, for it seems so stupid.

However, I will describe it." Later on he sends a little clay model of a staircase, just enough to indicate his general conception, but not to determine details.

He suggests that the work would look better if carried out in walnut.

We have every reason to suppose that the present stone flight of steps is far from being representative of his idea.
He was now too old to do more than furnish drawings when asked to design some monument.

Accordingly, when Pius IV.