Скачать или смотреть ‘Michelangelo had a bad temper and was always asking for money.’ According to Giovan B. Figiovanni.

There are several accounts describing the brilliant Michelangelo Buonarroti as very stingy and with a rather difficult character.
It seems that his closed and gloomy character was due to the premature death of his mother, who passed away when the artist was only six years old. Michelangelo was therefore left with his father, who appears to have been a very authoritarian man who despised his son's artistic ambitions. It should be remembered that the Buonarroti family belonged to the Florentine minor nobility and that manual labour by artists was not considered suitable for nobles.
As for avarice, when he was about twenty years old, Michelangelo had followed Savonarola's sermons and from then on followed his teachings of a moderate lifestyle.
The video, on the other hand, deals with a document, a memoir, preserved in the archives of Palazzo Capponi delle Rovinate in Florence, written by Giovan Battista Figiovanni, the Florentine clergyman who was very close to the Medici family. The two met during the construction of the New Sacristy in San Lorenzo in Florence, which began in 1519. Figiovanni was commissioned by Giulio de' Medici, the future Pope Clement VII, to supervise the construction site as a provider. It was there that Figiovanni clashed with the brilliant but difficult artist, who, moreover, was always asking for money.
I would like to thank Count Niccolò Capponi, historian, for his availability and hospitality.
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