By next week I shall know and will tell you.
Master Bernardino left here yesterday.

When he salutes you receive him kindly enough.
"The tenth day of July.
"MICHAEL ANGELO, in Bologna."(98) To the same, later (July 18, 1501):-- "BUONARROTO,--My affairs might have turned out much better and also much worse; at any rate, all of it is there as far as I can make out, for it is not yet all uncovered.

I estimate that it will take some months to chase, for it has come out with a bad surface; all the same, we must thank God! for, as I say, it might have been worse.

If anything is said to you by Salvestro del Pollaiolo( 99) or others, tell them that I do not need any one, so that no one will be sent here to be on my shoulders, because I have spent so much that there hardly remains enough for me to live on, let alone keeping others.

About next week I will let you know more when I have uncovered the whole figure.
"MICHAEL ANGELO, in Bologna."(100) After several letters describing his labours, he writes, ultimately, to the same:-- "BUONARROTO,--I marvel you write to me so seldom.