It is said that nothing is now talked of in Siena but your frivolity.

Certain it is that here at the baths, where the concourse of ecclesiastics and laity is great, you are the topic of the day.

Our displeasure is unutterable, since all this reflects dishonourably upon the sacerdotal estate and office.

It will be said of us that we are enriched and promoted not to the end that we may lead blameless lives, but that we may procure the means to indulge our pleasures.

Hence the contempt of us entertained by temporal princes and powers and the daily sarcasms of the laity.