People with enormously talented---who was Leonardo da Vinci

I knew da Vinci from a story about learning to paint eggs in textbook.but this story maybe not true.

He was a bastard raised by his uncle.before he was sent to Florence by his father,he had shown his gift in painting when he was a very little baby.
he loved drawing and drew things like real.But he learned from the nature,not a human teacher.

His first name is Leonardo,da Vinci means from Vinci-the town Leonardo comes from.

So for all those years, we called the greatest artist in history the man from Vinci?hehe.