The Life and Training of Benozzo Gozzoli Born Benozzo di Lese, the man who would become known as Benozzo Gozzoli entered the world around 1421. His early years were shaped by the movement of his family, who left their village of Sant'Ilario a Colombano to settle in Florence in 1427. This relocation placed him at the very heart of a changing era, where the traditions of the past were beginning to meet new ways of seeing the world. Befo…