According to Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, for whom Michelangelo had sculpted "St. John the Baptist", asked that Michelangelo "fix it so that it looked as if it had been buried" so he could "send it to Rome...pass off as an ancient work and … sell it much better.
Proti koncu leta 1494 je bila politična situacija v Firencah mirnejša.