# Michelangelo

Author: Strutt, Edward C.

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69303

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Michelangelo+Strutt&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the quaintly written diary of Messer Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, a well-to-do Florentine citizen, the following entry, dated March 6th, 1475, may still be found: "To-day there was born unto me a male child, whom I have named Michelagnolo.[1] He saw the light at Caprese, whereof I am Podestà, on Monday morning, 6th March, between four and five o'clock, and on the 8th of the same month he was baptized in the church of San Giovanni." Messer Lodovico had been appointed _Podestà_, or Governor, of Chiusi and Caprese in the Casentino by Lorenzo de Medici only a few months before penning this memorandum, so that, by a strange caprice of fate, it was here, in the little town overshadowed by the...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/michelangelo-69303/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/michelangelo-69303/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/michelangelo-69303/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/michelangelo-69303/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/michelangelo-69303/chapters/5/index.md)