Among the minutes of disbursements made for Buonarroto's widow and children after his burial, we find that their clothes had been destroyed because of the infection.

All the cares of the family now fell on Michelangelo's shoulders.

He placed his niece Francesca in a convent till the time that she should marry, repaid her dowry to the widow Bartolommea, and provided for the expenses of his nephew Lionardo.
For the rest, there is little to relate which has any bearing on the way in which he passed his time before the siege of Florence began.
One glimpse, however, is afforded of his daily life and conversation by Benvenuto Cellini, who had settled in Florence after the sack of Rome, and was working in a shop he opened at the Mercato Nuovo.

The episode is sufficiently interesting to be quoted.

A Sienese gentleman had commissioned Cellini to make him a golden medal, to be worn in the hat.