Editing Michelangelo (section)

===Personal habits===
Michelangelo was moderate in his personal life, and once told his apprentice, [[Ascanio Condivi]]: "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."<ref name=CondiviLOM106>Condivi, ''The Life of Michelangelo'', p. 106.</ref> Michelangelo's bank accounts and numerous deeds of purchase show that his net worth was about 50,000 gold [[ducat]]s, more than many princes and dukes of his time.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shirbon|first=Estelle|title=Michelangelo more a prince than a pauper|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-03-et-shirbon3-story.html|url-status=live|newspaper=LA Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614153737/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-03-et-shirbon3-story.html|archive-date=Jun 14, 2023}}</ref> Condivi said he was indifferent to food and drink, eating "more out of necessity than of pleasure"<ref name=CondiviLOM106/> and that he "often slept in his clothes and&nbsp;... boots."<ref name=CondiviLOM106/> His biographer [[Paolo Giovio]] says, "His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him."<ref>[[Paola Barocchi]] (ed.) ''Scritti d'arte del cinquecento'', Milan, 1971; vol. I, p. 10.</ref> This, however, may not have affected him, as he was by nature a solitary and melancholy person, {{lang|it|bizzarro e fantastico}}, a man who "withdrew himself from the company of men."<ref name="Condivi">Condivi, p. 102.</ref>