This evening of the 29th of April, 1527, he has begun to bring in certain bundles.

He says they are linen of his sisters, and I, not to witness what he does, or where he hides the stuff, have given him the key of the said sacristy this said evening." Upon July 2, 1528, Michael Angelo's favourite brother, Buonarroto, died of the plague.

Gotti tells how Michael Angelo held his brother in his arms( 139) while he was dying, notwithstanding the great risk to his own life, and took care of his family after his death.

There are minutes of the expenses he incurred; the clothes were burnt to avoid infection; he repaid the widow Bartolommea her dowry, placed his niece Francesca in a convent until she was of an age to marry, and provided for his nephew Lionardo, as if for a son of his own.
The citizens of Florence, fearing the anger of the Pope and his new allies, now that their power was in the ascendant, prepared to endure a siege.

Michael Angelo was appointed general over the construction of the walls and defences of the city in 1529.