e show how his mind was troubled.
There is a letter in the British Museum that belongs to this summer of
1508.

"MOST REVEREND FATHER,--I have learnt by your last how things go
with you, and how Giovan Simone behaves himself. I have not had
worse news for ten years than on the evening when I read your
letter, for I thought that I had arranged their affairs so that
they had reason to hope they would make a good shop with my aid.
Now, I see, they do the contrary, especially Giovan Simone. From
this I know that it is profitless to try and do him good. Had it
been possible on the day when I received your letter I should have
mounted on horseback and by this time should have settled
everything; but not being able to do so, I write him such a letter
as appears to me to be necessary, and if from now he does not
change his nature, or if ever he takes from the home so much as a
stick, or does anything to displease you, I pray you to let me
know, because I will obtain leave from the Pope to come to you,
when I shall show him his error. 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