At any rate, the block was restored in 1530 to Bandinelli, who produced the misbegotten group which still deforms the Florentine Piazza.
Michelangelo had some reason to be jealous of Bandinelli, who exercised considerable influence at the Medicean court, and was an unscrupulous enemy both in word and deed.

A man more widely and worse hated than Bandinelli never lived.

If any piece of mischief happened which could be fixed upon him with the least plausibility, he bore the blame.

Accordingly, when Buonarroti's workshop happened to be broken open, people said that Bandinelli was the culprit.

Antonio Mini left the following record of the event: "Three months before the siege, Michelangelo's studio in Via Mozza was burst into with chisels, about fifty drawings of figures were stolen, and among them the designs for the Medicean tombs, with others of great value; also four models in wax and clay.