Considering that all your doings are in favour of Carrara, you have caused his Holiness and us no small astonishment.

What we heard from Jacopo Salviati contradicts your opinion.

He went to examine the marble-quarries at Pietra Santa, and informed us that there are enormous quantities of stone, excellent in quality and easy to bring down.

This being the case, some suspicion has arisen in our minds that you, for your own interests, are too partial to the quarries of Carrara, and want to depreciate those of Pietra Santa.

This of a truth, would be wrong in you, considering the trust we have always reposed in your honesty.