Enough that it has come badly.

Thanks be to God all the same, because I believe everything is for the best.

Before long I shall know what I have to do and will write to you.

Tell Lodovico about it, and be of good cheer.

And if it should be that I have to do it all again, and that I am not able to return to you, I will find means somehow to do what I have promised in the best way I can.
"The first day of July.
"MICHAEL ANGELO, in Bologna."(96) He gives further details in his next letter:-- "BUONARROTO,--Understand how that we have cast my figure.