Roaming those galleries and gazing from those windows, he is said to have exclaimed in the words of Job: "Why died I not from the womb?
why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly ?" The immediate effect of this disaster was that the Medici lost their hold on Florence.

The Cardinal of Cortona, with the young princes Ippolito and Alessandro de' Medici, fled from the city on the 17th of May, and a popular government was set up under the presidency of Niccolo Capponi.
During this year and the next, Michelangelo was at Florence; but we know very little respecting the incidents of his life.

A _Ricordo_ bearing the date April 29 shows the disturbed state of the town.

"I record how, some days ago, Piero di Filippo Gondi asked for permission to enter the new sacristy at S.Lorenzo, in order to hide there certain goods belonging to his family, by reason of the perils in which we are now.

To-day, upon the 29th of April 1527, he has begun to carry in some bundles, which he says are linen of his sisters; and I, not wishing to witness what he does or to know where he hides the gear away, have given him the key of the sacristy this evening." There are only two letters belonging to the year 1527.