Braun, Clement & Co., in Dornach, Alsace_) "Afterwards, the first time Pope Julius went to Bologna, I was obliged to take my courage in both hands and go there to beg his pardon; then he ordered me to make his portrait in bronze, which was seated, about seven braccia high.

He asking me what it would cost, I said I believed I could cast it for a thousand ducats, but that it was not my art and that I could not promise.

He replied to me: 'Go to work and cast it until it come well, and we will give you what will content you.' To be brief, it was cast twice.

At the end of the two years that I stayed there I found myself four ducats and a half in pocket; and during that time I never received anything for all the expenses that I had, except the thousand ducats which I had said that I could cast it for; these were paid me in several installments by Messer Antonio Maria da Legnia (_me_), the Bolognese.
"Having hoisted the figure on to the facade of San Petronio, and returned to Rome, Pope Julius did not yet wish me to go on with the tomb, but set me to paint the vault of Sisto, and we made an agreement for three thousand ducats.

The first design was for twelve apostles in the lunettes, and for the rest certain compartments filled with ornaments of the usual sort.
"After beginning the said work it seemed to me it would be but a poor thing.