During the Renaissance, many elite noble children were polymaths who distinguished themselves in many disparate fields. If they had been switched at birth with the children of peasants on their fiefs, the peasant babies would have become polymaths. True then, true now.
There were quite a few folks raised at the court of the Medici. Most of their names are not known to us. And as you know, Michelangelo's father very much discouraged his studies of the arts.
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His father beat him senseless on many occasions and yet due to greed and ignorance made many outlandish demands of his son.
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Most names in general are lost to history, so that means nothing.
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