In its sacristy lay the mortal remains of Cosimo, Lorenzo the Magnificent, and many other members of the Medicean family.

Here Leo came on the first Sunday in Advent to offer up prayers, and the Pope is said to have wept upon his father's tomb.

It may possibly have been on this occasion that he adopted the scheme so fatal to the happiness of the great sculptor.

Condivi clearly did not know what led to Michelangelo's employment on the facade of S.
Lorenzo, and Vasari's account of the transaction is involved.

Both, however, assert that he was wounded, even to tears, at having to abandon the monument of Julius, and that he prayed in vain to be relieved of the new and uncongenial task.
IV Leo at first intended to divide the work between several masters, giving Buonarroti the general direction of the whole.