After the death of Julius II in 1513, the demographic situation in Rome had changed: because of the wars in Italy, a large number of Lombards had emigrated to the city, settling in the northern area of the Campo Marzio, where their national church already existed. This caused a shift in the centre of gravity of the city's development, which excluded Via Giulia. Despite that, Julius' successor, Pope Leo X () from the House of Medici, continued the work, favoring the northern end of the road, that is the stretch between the unfinished "Palazzo dei Tribunali" and the banking district, where his Florentine countrymen lived and the Florentine merchant community worked.