 Much documentation, cited below, proves the busts were finished in 1632 - Pope Paul V, mentioned in both accounts, died in 1621.A document in the State Archive of Modena, dated 8 January 1633) says that ""Bernini, commissioned by the Pope, has created a marble bust of Cardinal Borghese, for which he has been recompensed 500 zecchini and a diamond worth 150 scudi"".A letter from the writer Fulvio Testi to the Cardinal to Count Francesco Fontana, 29 January 1633 also talks of the bust, Testi saying it cost 1000 scudi, and that the figure is ‘truly alive and breathing’.