If we are right in ascribing a letter written by Benvenuto della Volpaia from Rome upon the 18th of January to the year 1531, and not to 1532, he must have already decided on this step.
The document is curious in several respects.

"Yours of the 13th informs me that you want a room.

I shall be delighted if I can be of service to you in this matter; indeed, it is nothing in respect to what I should like to do for you.

I can offer you a chamber or two without the least inconvenience; and you could not confer on me a greater pleasure than by taking up your abode with me in either of the two places which I will now describe.

His Holiness has placed me in the Belvedere, and made me guardian there.