Michelangelo made Urbino's fortune, mourned his death, and undertook the guardianship of his children, as will appear in due course.

All through his life the great sculptor was dependent upon some trusted servant, to whom he became personally attached, and who did not always repay his kindness with gratitude.

After Urbino's death, Ascanio Condivi filled a similar post, and to this circumstance we owe the most precious of our contemporary biographies.
Our most important document with regard to the Tomb of Julius is an elaborate petition addressed by Michelangelo to Paul III.

upon the 20th of July.

It begins by referring to the contract of April 18, 1532, and proceeds to state that the Pope's new commission for the Cappella Paolina has interfered once more with the fulfilment of the sculptor's engagements.