I wish you to be certain that all
the labours which I have continually endured have been more for
your sake than for my own, and the property which I have bought I
have bought that it may be yours whilst you live. Had it not been
for you I should not have bought it. Therefore, if it please you
to let this house or the farm, do so; and with that income and
with what I shall give you you will live like a gentleman. Were it
not that the summer were coming on I would say come and live with
me here, but it is not the season, for here in summer you would
not live long. It has occurred to me to take from him (Giovan
Simone) the money which he has in the shop, and to give it to
Gismondo, so that he and Buonarroto may get on together as well as
they can ... and if you let these said houses and the farm of the
Pazolatica, and with that income and with the help that I will
give you besides, you will take refuge in some place where you
will be comfortable, and you will be able to keep some one to
serve you either in Florence or outside Florence, and leave that
good-for-nothing ... I pray you to consider yourself, and in all
things whatever you wish to do--that is, for yourself in all you
desire--I will aid you all I know and can. Let me hear about
Cassandra's affairs. I am advised not to go to law about it here.
I am told that I shall spend here three times as much as there;
and this is certain, for a grosso goes further there than two
carlini here.
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