When we discover that he was a man of more than usually nervous temperament, very different in quality from any of his relatives, we must not forget what a fatiguing journey had been performed by his mother, who was then awaiting her delivery.

Even supposing that Lodovico Buonarroti travelled from Florence by Arezzo to Caprese, many miles of rough mountain-roads must have been traversed by her on horseback.
III Ludovico, who, as we have seen, was Podesta of Caprese and of Chiusi in the Casentino, had already one son by his first wife, Francesca, the daughter of Neri di Miniato del Sera and Bonda Rucellai.

This elder brother, Lionardo, grew to manhood, and become a devoted follower of Savonarola.

Under the influence of the Ferrarese friar, he determined to abjure the world, and entered the Dominican Order in 1491.

We know very little about him, and he is only once mentioned in Michelangelo's correspondence.