 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.