The things with which my house was stocked went to the dogs.

The marbles I had brought to Rome lay till the date of Leo's creation on the Piazza, and both lots were injured and pillaged." Again, a letter of October 1542, addressed to some prelate, contains further particulars.

We learn he was so short of money that he had to borrow about 200 ducats from his friend Baldassare Balducci at the bank of Jacopo Gallo.

The episode at the Vatican and the flight to Poggibonsi are related thus:-- "To continue my history of the tomb of Julius: I say that when he changed his mind about building it in his lifetime, some ship-loads 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.