“May it please our great Author that I may demonstrate the nature of man and his customs, in the way I describe his figure.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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