His Holiness might employ some of my arguments, as, for instance, the time spent for the Pope at Bologna, and other times wasted without any compensation, according to the statements I have made in full to Ser Giovan Francesco (Fattucci).

Directly the terms of restitution have been settled, I will engage my property, sell, and put myself in a position to repay the money.

I shall then be able to think of the Pope's orders and to work; as it is, I can hardly be said to live, far less to work.
There is no other way of putting an end to the affair more safe for myself, nor more agreeable, nor more certain to ease my mind.

It can be done amicably without a lawsuit.

I pray to God that the Pope may be willing to accept the mediation, for I cannot see that any one else is fit to do it." Giorgio Vasari says that he came in the year 1525 for a short time as pupil to Michelangelo.