At later times, during his mother's prolonged illness and after her death in 1481, when he was just six years old, Michelangelo lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.
V času Michelangelovega rojstva, je bil njegov oče, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni sodni upravitelj mestecu Caprese blizu Arezza in lokalni upravitelj Chiusija.