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Italy in the 15th century was very different to the country we know today. Back then it was a collection of small republics. These city states were all under the governorship of the Pope in Rome.

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The key republics were Florence, Genoa and Venice. Every state had its own governors, nobles, peasants, priests and government officials. Nestled in the remote Apennine Mountains of central Italy was the small village of Caprese. It was here, on March 6th, , that Francesca di Neri Buonarroti gace birth to her second son, Michelangelo.

Her husband, Lodovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni was a lowly official who had the job of convicting and sentencing criminals. When baby Michelangelo was sixth months old, the family of four moved to Florence. Here Lodovico bought a small farm near the village of Settignano. It was in this village that the child spent his early years, under the care of a wet nurse.

Farming off newborns to a wet nurse for the first two years of life was a common practice at that time. The woman who took in Michelangelo was married to a stonecutter. When he was three, Michelangelo returned to live with his family in Florence. The family was poor and, with new babies arriving frequently, the household was overcrowded.

Lodovico received a meager government salary and his farm was not very successful. In fact, he believed that the work of a lowly farmer was beneath him.