Michelangelo
Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, near Arezzo, Tuscany. For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence; but the bank failed, and his father, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, briefly took a government post in Caprese, where Michelangelo was born. At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the town's Judicial administrator and "podestà" or local administrator of Chiusi della Verna. Michelangelo's mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena. The Buonarrotis claimed to descend from the Countess Mathilde of Canossa—a claim that remains unproven, but which Michelangelo believed.
Tommaso Bellacci
Tommaso Bellacci was born in Florence in 1370 as the son of a butcher. His parents came from Castello di Linari in Val d'Elsa. He was born in a house that was situated on the Ponte alle Grazie. He led a wild and dissolute life as an adolescent that parents warned their sons to keep their distance from him. He became a butcher like his father. He got into a lot of trouble on various occasions during his childhood.