Of all the renaissance era scientists you could have picked, Newton is probably the single worst example. Read his early life [1] on Wiki. Father, a "wild and extravagant man" died shortly after he was born. His mother remarried a reverend and left him with with the grandparents. He wasn't fond of his parents, having threatened to burn the house to the ground - them along with it. Then he went to high school, where he did poorly until he was 'removed' to a new school. His mother, now widowed a second time, tried to make him a farmer.. and so on, and so forth. When studying law at Cambridge he even worked as a servant to make ends meet.
His young life is like something out of Jerry Springer.
Though I think it offers a good moral. Life is what you make of it. This is far more true today than during Newton's life. The big difference is that somehow we, collectively, seem to have lost our willingness to do what it takes to leave us in the sort of position your envision Newton as somehow having been warped into. Remember his 'magnum opus' would not come until he was 43 years old in 1685 - most of his life prior spent in complete disregard.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Isaac_Newton