As for the sixty ducats you tell me you are fined, I think this a scurvy trick, and am exceedingly annoyed.

However, we must have patience as long as it pleases God.

I will write and enclose two lines to Giuliano de' Medici.

Read them, and if you like to present them to him, do so; you will see whether they are likely to be of any use.

If not, consider whether we can sell our property and go to live elsewhere....