This month we are commemorating Michelangelo Buonarroti’s 547th birthday with a biography of Michelangelo’s early years and his Vatican statue of The Pieta. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born March 6th 1475 (d. 1564) in the Tuscany village of Caprese, Italy. His parents were Lodovico, a poor Florence nobleman, and Francesca, his wife, who…