I was with your mother yesterday, and advised her, in the presence of Granacci and John the turner, to send for you home." While in Rome Michelangelo conferred with Clement about the sacristy and library at S.Lorenzo.For a year after his return to Florence he worked steadily at the Medicean monuments, but not without severe annoyances, as appears from the following to Fattucci: "The four statues I have in hand are not yet finished, and much has still to be done upon them.

The four rivers are not begun, because the marble is wanting, and yet it is here.

I do not think it opportune to tell you why.

With regard to the affairs of Julius, I am well disposed to make the tomb like that of Pius in S.Peter's, and will do so little by little, now one piece and now another, and will pay for it out of my own pocket, if I keep my pension and my house, as you promised me.

I mean, of course, the house at Rome, and the marbles and other things I have there.