Buonarroto wrote a long and interesting account of this triumphal entry to his brother in Rome.

He describes how a procession was formed by the Pope's court and guard and the gentlemen of Florence.

"Among the rest, there went a bevy of young men, the noblest in our commonwealth, all dressed alike with doublets of violet satin, holding gilded staves in their hands.

They paced before the Papal chair, a brave sight to see.

And first there marched his guard, and then his grooms, who carried him aloft beneath a rich canopy of brocade, which was sustained by members of the College, while round about the chair walked the Signory." The procession moved onward to the Church of S.Maria del Fiore, where the Pope stayed to perform certain ceremonies at the high altar, after which he was carried to his apartments at S.Maria Novella.