"As I cannot persuade myself that you do not intend to come, I urgently request you to reflect, if you have not already started, that the property of those who incurred outlawry with you is being sold, and if you do not arrive within the term conceded by your safe-conduct--that is, during this month--the same will happen to yourself without the possibility of any mitigation.

If you do come, as I still hope and firmly believe, speak with my honoured friend Messer Filippo Calandrini here, to whom I have given directions for your attendance from this town without trouble to yourself.

God keep you safe from harm, and grant we see you shortly in our country, by His aid, victorious." With this letter, Palla, who was certainly a good friend to the wayward artist, and an amiable man to boot, disappears out of this history.

At some time about the 20th of November, Michelangelo returned to Florence.

We do not know how he finished the journey, and how he was received; but the sentence of outlawry was commuted, on the 23rd, into exclusion from the Grand Council for three years.