If you wish, nobody but my brother and Mona Lisabetta and I shall know that you are here, and you shall do just as you please; and, in short, I beg you earnestly to choose this plan.
Otherwise, come to the Borgo Nuovo, to the houses which Volterra built, the fifth house toward S.Angelo.I have rented it to live there, and my brother Fruosino is also going to live and keep shop in it.

There you will have a room or two, if you like, at your disposal.
Please yourself, and give the letter to Tommaso di Stefano Miniatore, who will address it to Messer Lorenzo de' Medici, and I shall have it quickly." Nothing came of these proposals.

But that Michelangelo did not abandon the idea of going to Rome appears from a letter of Sebastiano's written on the 24th of February.

It was the first which passed between the friends since the terrible events of 1527 and 1530.

For once, the jollity of the epicurean friar has deserted him.