The micro-learning app Paladin turns the rivalry between Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo into a battle between two tortured geniuses. Maybe that’s a melodramatic narrative hook, but their stories were so much more than that.
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Yes—this is substantially true, but “they openly despised each other” and “their rivalry pushed both to heights they never could have reached alone” go beyond what is established.
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