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Vinci, Leonardo da
Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, cartographer,
engineer, scientist and inventor in the 15th century. Yet, despite his
genius, he referred to himself as "senza lettere" (the illiterate, the
man without letters). For good reason: until late in life, he was
unable to read, or write, Latin, the language used by virtually all
other Renaissance intellectuals, the lingua franca, akin to English
today. Nor was he acquainted with mathematics until he was 30.
Leonardo was born out of wedlock but was raised by his real father, a
wealthy Florentine notary. He served at least ten years (1466-1476) as
Garzone (apprentice) to Andrea del Verrocchio and painted details in
Verrocchio's canvasses. Only in 1478, when he was 26, did he become
independent.
He was not off to an auspicious start. He never executed his first
commission (an altarpiece in the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio della
Signoria, Florence's town hall). His first large paintings were left
unfinished ("The Adoration of the Magi" and "Saint Jerome", both
1481).
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