The letter to Fattucci, when carefully studied, leads to these conclusions.
Very little is known to us regarding his private life in the year 1521.

We only possess one letter, relating to the purchase of a house.
In October he stood godfather to the infant son of Niccolo Soderini, nephew of his old patron, the Gonfalonier.
This barren period is marked by only one considerable event--that is, the termination of the Cristo Risorto, or Christ Triumphant, which had been ordered by Metello Varj de' Porcari in 1514.

The statue seems to have been rough-hewn at the quarries, packed up, and sent to Pisa on its way to Florence as early as December 1518, but it was not until March 1521 that Michelangelo began to occupy himself about it seriously.

He then despatched Pietro Urbano to Rome with orders to complete it there, and to arrange with the purchaser for placing it upon a pedestal.

Sebastiano's letters contain some references to this work, which enable us to understand how wrong it would be to accept it as a representative piece of Buonarroti's own handicraft.