Junior Scholastic, April 9th, 2001
Painter, sculptor, Renaissance man.
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The boy had a lavish talent for drawing. He and the other apprentices would take their artists' tools to a church in Florence and sketch the sculptures and paintings.
But sometimes the boy got a little too big for his smock. "[He] had the habit of making fun of anyone else who was there," remembered a fellow apprentice. "One day, he provoked me so much that I lost my temper ... and gave him such a punch on the nose that I felt the bone and cartilage crush like a biscuit. So that fellow will carry my signature till, he dies."
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