Volume Volume2\Letters, Personal Records, Dated Notes
Entry# 1353. Draft of letter written at Rome.
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Draft of letter written at Rome.
This other hindered me in anatomy, blaming it before the Pope; and
likewise at the hospital; and he has filled 4 this whole Belvedere
with workshops for mirrors; and he did the same thing in Maestro
Giorgio's room. He said that he had been promised 7 eight ducats
every month, beginning with the first day, when he set out, or at
latest when he spoke with you; and that you agreed.
Seeing that he seldom stayed in the workshop, and that he ate a
great deal, I sent him word that, if he liked I could deal with him
separately for each thing that he might make, and would give him
what we might agree to be a fair valuation. He took counsel with his
neighbour and gave up his room, selling every thing, and went to
find...