Here he is not worth a farthing, and makes me toil like a beast of burden; and my other apprentice has not left his bed.

It is true that I have not got him in the house; for when I was so tired out that I could not bear it, I sent him to the room of a brother of his.

I have no money." These household difficulties were a trifle, however, compared with the annoyances caused by the stupidity of his father and the greediness of his brothers.

While living like a poor man in Rome, he kept continually thinking of their welfare.

The letters of this period are full of references to the purchase of land, the transmission of cash when it was to be had, and the establishment of Buonarroto in a draper's business.