Cecchino dei Bracci

He died at the age of fifteen and is buried in Santa Maria in Aracoeli, in a tomb designed by Michelangelo.

They acquired palazzo Neroni in via de' Ginori as their base, along with a chapel in Santa Maria Novella.

Around 1540 Cecchino accompanied his uncle, Luigi del Riccio, to Rome where he had links with the Strozzi banking family.

He died on 8 January 1544,[2] and his devastated uncle begged Michelangelo to design the tomb and write some verses as an epitaph.

Michelangelo is making for me the design of a decent sepulture in marble; and I pray you to write me the epitaph, and to send it to me with a consolatory letter, if time permits, for my grief has distraught me.