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When you come you will deliver me from prison, because I wish to avoid bad companions; and having this desire, I cannot converse with any one but you. I recommend myself to you a thousand times. Yours more than his own, "Thomao Cavaliere. "Rome, August 2, 1533."

He is counting not the days merely, but the hours, till you return." In another letter, without date, Angelini says, "I gave your messages to M. Thomao, who replied that your presence would be dearer to him than your writing, and that if it seems to you a thousand years, to him it seems ten thousand, till you come. Like everything of yours, it delighted him.

He sends a thousand messages, but only to pray you to come back. Your affectionate, "Thomao Cavaliere. "Rome, September 6." All the drawings mentioned by Vasari as having been made for Cavalieri are alluded to here, except the Bacchanal of Children. Of the Phaëthon we have two splendid examples in existence, one at Windsor, the other in the collection of M. Emile Galichon.

I pray and conjure you, by the love you bear to God, that you tell me what you have against me, in order that I may disabuse you. Not having more to write, I remain your servant, "Thomao De' Cavalieri. "From my house, November 15, 1561."

Only I beg you remember, on occasion, to make use of me; and recommend myself in perpetuity to you. Your most affectionate servant. "Thomao Cavaliere." The next letters were addressed to Michelangelo in Florence: "Unique, my Lord, I have received from you a letter, very acceptable, from which I gather that you are not a little saddened at my having written to you about forgetting.