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Political map of Italy in the year in 1494. Leonardo Da Vinci's grandfather Antonio and father Piero were notaries, and Antonio noted the birth of Leonardo in a notary book of the 14th century used as a collection of memories of the family, writing, "Nacque un mio nipote, figliolo di ser Piero mio figliolo a dì 15 aprile del 1452 in sabato a ore 3 di notte [according to the Gregorian calendar ...
Leonardo Da Vinci's baptism record. Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] ("Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci"), [9] [10] [c] was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, 20 miles from Florence.
Leonardo was born to unmarried parents on 23–24 April 1452 (Old System: 15 April 1452), "at the third hour of the night", [4] in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of the Republic of Florence.
The document was written by Ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo’s father, and dated November 1452, when Leonardo would have been 6 months old. ... Kemp concluded that Caterina and her infant brother ...
Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream of Changing the Course of Florentine History (online notes for Chapter 6). Free Press via Dartmouth College (dartmouth.edu). ISBN 0-684-84452-4. Archived from the original on February 3, 2009. Müntz, Eugène (1898). Leonardo Da Vinci, Artist, Thinker and Man of ...
Cesare Borgia briefly employed the artisan Leonardo da Vinci as a military architect and engineer between 1502 and 1503. Cesare provided Leonardo with an unlimited pass to inspect and direct all ongoing and planned construction in his domain. [26] While in Romagna, Leonardo built the canal from Cesena to the Porto Cesenatico. [27]
Drawing of Gallerani by Leonardo. Cecilia Gallerani (Italian pronunciation: [tʃeˈtʃiːlja ɡalleˈraːni]; early 1473 – 1536) was the favourite and most celebrated of the many mistresses of Ludovico Sforza, known as Lodovico il Moro, Duke of Milan. She is best known as the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Lady with an Ermine (c. 1489).
Such was the case back in the 1480s, when a young Leonardo da Vinci was coming up in. Alamy By Drake Baer Even a Renaissance man is occasionally on the job hunt. Such was the case back in the ...