I could not have been better pleased.

You see that my judgment is confirmed; and so you must not deny that you are peerless, when I write it, since I have a crowd of witnesses to my opinion.

There is a picture too of yours here, God be praised, which wins credence for me with every one who has eyes." Correspondence was carried on during this year regarding the library at S.Lorenzo; and though I do not mean to treat at length about that building in this chapter, I cannot omit an autograph postscript added by Clement to one of his secretary's missives: "Thou knowest that Popes have no long lives; and we cannot yearn more than we do to behold the chapel with the tombs of our kinsmen, or at any rate to hear that it is finished.

Likewise, as regards the library.

Wherefore we recommend both to thy diligence.