I am brought to this, that if the universe should crumble round me, I should not care, but laugh at all.

Menighella will inform you what my life is, how I am.

I do not yet seem to myself to be the same Bastiano I was before the Sack.

I cannot yet get back into my former frame of mind." In a postscript to this letter, eloquent by its very naivete, Sebastiano says that he sees no reason for Michelangelo's coming to Rome, except it be to look after his house, which is going to ruin, and the workshop tumbling to pieces.

In another letter, of April 29, Sebastiano repeats that there is no need for Michelangelo to come to Rome, if it be only to put himself right with the Pope.