Michelangelo was a devout Catholic whose faith deepened at the end of his life.[56] He was abstemious 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.[57] Condivi said he was indifferent to food and drink, eating more out of necessity than of pleasure[57] and that he often slept in his clothes andxa0... boots.[57] 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.[58] He may not have minded, since he was by nature a solitary and melancholy person, bizzarro e fantastico, a man who withdrew himself from the company of men.[59]