Three of these servants are interwoven with the chief events of his later years, Pietro Urbano, Antonio Mini, and Francesco d'Amadore, called Urbino, the last of whom became his faithful and attached friend till death parted them.

Women about the house he could not bear.

Of the serving-maids at Rome he says: "They are all strumpets and swine." Well, it seems that Lodovico found a boy, and sent him off to Rome.

What followed is related in the next letter.

"As regards the boy you sent me, that rascal of a muleteer cheated me out of a ducat for his journey.