Twenty soldi to Piloto for a pair of shoes.

Fourteen days' board in Venice, twenty lire." It has been argued from the date of the unfinished letter below which these items are jotted down, that Michelangelo must have been in Venice early in September, before his flight from Florence at the end of that month.

But whatever weight we may attach to this single date, there is no corroborative proof that he travelled twice to Venice, and everything in the _Ricordo_ indicates that it refers to the period of his flight from Florence.

The sum paid to Corsini comes first, because it must have been disbursed when that man broke the journey at Ferrara.

Antonio Mini and Piloto are both mentioned: a house has been engaged, and furnished with Michelangelo's usual frugality, as though he contemplated a residence of some duration.