Early life,
Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany (known today as Caprese Michelangelo). his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence, but the bank failed,His father, Ludovico di Leonardo BuonarrotiSimoni,At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the Judicial administrator of the small town of Caprese and local administrator of Chiusi. Michelangelo's mother was Francesca di NeridelMiniato di Siena. The Buonarrotis claimed to descend from the Countess Mathilde of Canossa; this claim remains unproven, but Michelangelo himself believed it.Several months after Michelangelo's birth, the family returned to Florence. At later times, during his mother's prolonged illness and her death in 1481, when he was just six years old, Michelangelo lived with a nanny and her husband, in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.
Personal life
Michelangelo was a devout Catholic whose faith deepened at the end of his life. He was abstemious in his personal life, and once told his apprentice, AscanioCondivi: "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."Condivi said he was indifferent to food and drink, eating "more out of necessity than of pleasure"and that he "often slept in his clothes and ... boots." His biographer Paolo Giovio says, "His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him."
Late in life, Michelangelo nurtured a great platonic love for the poet and noble widow Vittoria Colonna, whom he met in Rome in 1536 or 1538 and who was in her late forties at the time. They wrote sonnets for each other and were in regular contact until she died. These sonnets mostly deal with the spiritual issues that occupied them.Condivi recalls Michelangelo's saying that his sole regret in life was that he did not kiss the widow's face in the same manner that he had her hand.
Death
In his old age, Michelangelo created a number of Pietàs in which he apparently reflects upon mortality. They are heralded by the Victory, perhaps created for the tomb of Pope Julius II but left unfinished. In this group, the youthful victor overcomes an older hooded figure, with the features of Michelangelo.