Lastly, he informs his correspondent that he has contracted with two separate companies for two hundred cartloads of Carrara marble.
An important letter to the same Domenico Buoninsegni, dated Carrara, May 2, 1517, proves that Michelangelo had become enthusiastic about his new design.

"I have many things to say to you.

So I beg you to take some patience when you read my words, because it is a matter of moment.

Well, then, I feel it in me to make this facade of S.Lorenzo such that it shall be a mirror of architecture and of sculpture to all Italy.

But the Pope and the Cardinal must decide at once whether they want to have it done or not.