Editing Dylan and Cole Sprouse (section)

==Early lives==
The Sprouses were born at Clinica Tanganelli, a small hospital in [[Arezzo]], Italy, to American parents Matthew Sprouse and Melanie Wright, while they were teaching at an English language school in [[Tuscany]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Official Sprouse Bros Website |title=Official Sprouse Bros Website About Page |url=http://www.sprousebros.com/fans/about.php |access-date=April 5, 2012 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716122933/http://www.sprousebros.com/fans/about.php |archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref> Dylan was named after Welsh poet [[Dylan Thomas]], and Cole is named after jazz singer and pianist [[Nat King Cole]].<ref name="parade">{{cite journal |author=James Brady |title=In Step with Dylan & Cole Sprouse |journal=[[Parade Magazine]] |date=August 19, 2007 |page=22 |url=http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_08-19-2007/In_Step_With...Dylan_and_Cole |access-date=March 1, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220181556/http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_08-19-2007/In_Step_With...Dylan_and_Cole |archive-date=February 20, 2009}}</ref><ref name="popstar">{{cite journal |author=Popstar |title=Dylan & Cole take over the world!: House of Sprouse! |journal=Popstar Special! |date=June 2006 |page=90}}</ref> Dylan is 15&nbsp;minutes older than Cole.<ref name="mad">{{cite journal |author=Mad Kids |title=The Mad Kids Chatroom: This Month: Dylan & Cole Sprouse |journal=Mad Kids |date=May 2006 |volume=1 |issue=#3 |pages=26–28}}</ref> They have German ancestry.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sprouse |first=Dylan |title=In regards to my pictures... |url=http://bausprouse.tumblr.com/post/70207643377/in-regards-to-my-pictures |publisher=bausprouse |access-date=December 16, 2013 |date=December 16, 2013 |quote=I'm German by blood, so I feel you on that. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220074420/http://bausprouse.tumblr.com/post/70207643377/in-regards-to-my-pictures |archive-date=December 20, 2013 }}</ref> The boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents' native [[Long Beach, California]].<ref name=People09p14>{{cite journal |date=May 20, 2009 |title=Little Sprouses |journal=People |issue=Special Collector's Edition: Dylan and Cole: Zack & Cody |page=14 |access-date=March 28, 2018 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20277227,00.html}}</ref> Some of the money Dylan and Cole earned by acting was used to buy a house in [[Calabasas, California]], where their family still lived {{as of|2012|6|19|alt=as of summer 2012}}.<ref name=themutantseason>{{cite interview |last=Sprouse |first=Dylan |interviewer=Gil Dominguez-Letelier |title=The Mutant Season #34: Dylan Sprouse |url=http://www.nerdist.com/2012/06/the-mutant-season-34-dylan-sprouse/ |work=The Mutant Season |date=June 19, 2012 |at=7:22 minutes in |access-date=July 8, 2012 |quote=Our family used a lot of our money to buy... a house in Calabasas... and we actually still are around that area, which is good |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704172900/http://www.nerdist.com/2012/06/the-mutant-season-34-dylan-sprouse/ |archive-date=July 4, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>