I will make everything good to her and all of you, if it be necessary.

Do not have the least hesitation, even if you have to expend all that we possess." We may assume that the subsequent reports regarding Lodovico's health were satisfactory; for on the 5th of December Michelangelo set out for Rome.

The executors of Julius had assigned him free quarters in a house situated in the Trevi district, opposite the public road which leads to S.Maria del Loreto.

Here, then, he probably took up his abode.

We have seen that he had bound himself to finish the monument of Julius within the space of nine years, and to engage "in no work of great moment which should interfere with its performance." How this clause came to be inserted in a deed inspired by Leo is one of the difficulties with which the whole tragedy of the sepulchre bristles.
Perhaps we ought to conjecture that the Pope's intentions with regard to the facade of S.Lorenzo only became settled in the late autumn.