In reply to a letter of admonition written in this sense by his friend Lionardo di Compagno, the saddle-maker, he writes: "Your urgent solicitations are to me so many stabs of the knife.

I am dying of annoyance at not being able to do what I should like to do, through my ill-luck." At the same time he adds that he has now arranged an excellent workshop, where twenty statues can be set up together.

The drawback is that there are no means of covering the whole space in and protecting it against the weather.

This yard, encumbered with the marbles for S.Lorenzo, must have been in the Via Mozza.
Early in the spring he removed to Serravezza, and resumed the work of bringing down his blocked-out columns from the quarries.

One of these pillars, six of which he says were finished, was of huge size, intended probably for the flanks to the main door at S.Lorenzo.