 One day his mother broke her leg, Giorgio was sold as a boy chimney sweep to Milan, as the family had no money to pay for the medical treatment of his mother.A scar-faced man (referred to only as "Der Mann mit der Narbe" (The man with the Scar)), Antonio Luini, bought him for the sum of twenty Swiss Franks and gathered him and others to bring to Milan.During his journey to Milan, Giorgio met Alfredo, who came from a village in the Misox.