Leonardo was born on 14/15 April 1452 in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno river in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence. He was the out-of-wedlock son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a wealthy Florentine legal notary, and a peasant named Caterina, identified as Caterina Buti del Vacca and more recently as Caterina di Meo Lippi by historian Martin Kemp. There have been many theories regarding Leonardo's mother's identity, including that she was a slave of foreign origin or an impoverished local youth. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense—da Vinci simply meaning "of Vinci"; his full birth name was Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci, meaning "Leonardo, (son) of ser Piero (from) Vinci." Leonardo spent his first years in the hamlet of Anchiano in the home of his mother, and from at least 1457 lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle in the small town of Vinci.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci | Early life
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when was the first man made diamond made
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1954
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Pure carbon, the belt press, the cubic press and the split-sphere (BARS) press.
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High pressure, high temperature.
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Machine tools and cutting tools; as a Thermal conductor; as an Optical material; semiconductors ; gemstones
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A machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformation
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Forerunners of machine tools included bow drills and potter's wheels, which had existed in ancient Egypt prior to 2500 BC, and lathes, known to have existed in multiple regions of Europe since at least 1000 to 500 BC.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo was born on 14/15 April 1452 in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno river in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence. He was the out-of-wedlock son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a wealthy Florentine legal notary, and a peasant named Caterina, identified as Caterina Buti del Vacca and more recently as Caterina di Meo Lippi by historian Martin Kemp. There have been many theories regarding Leonardo's mother's identity, including that she was a slave of foreign origin or an impoverished local youth. Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense—da Vinci simply meaning "of Vinci"; his full birth name was Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci, meaning "Leonardo, (son) of ser Piero (from) Vinci." Leonardo spent his first years in the hamlet of Anchiano in the home of his mother, and from at least 1457 lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle in the small town of Vinci.
Leonardo da Vinci | Early life
Ferrulli was born in Brindisi on 1 January 1918. In 1935, he enrolled in the air force, entering flight training at the Benevento Flight School before the age of 18 years. After completing his training as a military pilot, he was assigned to the 4° Stormo.
Leonardo Ferrulli | Early life
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Leonardo graduated from Dowling High School in 1965. He received a BA degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1969 and a JD from the George Washington University Law School in 1972.
John S. Leonardo | Early life and education
Leonardo was born to unmarried parents on 15 April 1452, "at the third hour of the night" in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of the Republic of Florence. He was the out-of-wedlock son of the wealthy Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine legal notary, and an orphaned girl, Caterina di Meo Lippi. His full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, (son) of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci". The inclusion of the title "ser" indicated that Leonardo's father was a gentleman. Leonardo spent his first five years in the hamlet of Anchiano in the home of his mother, then from 1457 lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Biography
Leonardo was born and raised in Niterói, Brazil. Divorced from his first wife with whom he had three children (one boy, two girls), he is married to Sky Italia presenter Anna Billó, with whom he has a son.
Leonardo Araújo | Early and personal life
Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was born the illegitimate son of Messer Piero, a notary, and Caterina, a peasant woman. His early life was spent in the region of Vinci, in the valley of the Arno River near Florence, firstly with his mother and in later childhood in the household of his father, grandfather and uncle Francesco. His curiosity and interest in scientific observation were stimulated by his uncle Francesco, while his grandfather's keeping of journals set an example which he was to follow for most of his life, diligently recording in his own journals both the events of the day, his visual observations, his plans and his projects.
Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci | Condensed biography
Leonardo received an informal education in Latin, geometry and mathematics. In later life, Leonardo recorded few distinct childhood incidents. One was of a kite coming to his cradle and opening his mouth with its tail; he regarded this as an omen of his writing on the subject. The second occurred while he was exploring in the mountains: he discovered a cave and was both terrified that some great monster might lurk there and driven by curiosity to find out what was inside. He also seems to have remembered some of his childhood observations of water, writing and crossing out the name of his hometown in one of his notebooks on the formation of rivers.
Leonardo da Vinci | Early life
DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy when he first kicked. His parents separated when he was a year old; they initially agreed to live next door to each other so as not to deprive DiCaprio of his father's presence in his life. However, DiCaprio and his mother later moved around to multiple Los Angeles neighborhoods, such as Echo Park and Los Feliz, while the latter worked several jobs. He attended Seeds Elementary School and later went to John Marshall High School a few blocks away after attending the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies for four years.
Leonardo DiCaprio | Early life and acting background
Roberta Vinci was born in Taranto, the daughter of Angelo Vinci, an accountant, and his wife Luisa, a homemaker; she has an elder brother, Francesco. Vinci was introduced to tennis at the age of six. She currently resides in Palermo.
Roberta Vinci | Early life
He was not to see this project fully realized, but gathered the "Codex Urbinas".
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Pupils
In September 1926 he was born in Rome to middle-class parents, and his father was an amateur painter. As a child, he was crafty, and kept a diary accompanied with newspaper cut-outs, collages, photos and drawings. At a renowned Roman high school, he failed French and Latin.
Flavio Costantini | Early life
Giovagnoli was born in Città di Castello but grew up in the small town of Apecchio.
Filippo Giovagnoli | Early life
Di Filippo was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Paul Di Filippo | Early life
His father had married a 16-year-old girl named Albiera Amadori, who loved Leonardo but died young in 1465 without children. In 1468, when Leonardo was 16, his father married again to 20-year-old Francesca Lanfredini, who also died without children. Piero's legitimate heirs were born from his third wife Margherita di Guglielmo, who gave birth to six children, and his fourth and final wife, Lucrezia Cortigiani, who bore him another six heirs. In all, Leonardo had 12 half-siblings, who were much younger than he was (the last was born when Leonardo was 40 years old) and with whom he had very little contact.
Leonardo da Vinci | Early life
Born in Rome, Italy, in 1850 to Luigi Anivitti and Antonia Ermini, he studied at Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He was a pupil of Alessandro Capalti.
Giulio Anivitti | Early life
Little is known about Evola's early upbringing except that he considered it irrelevant. He studied engineering at the Istituto Tecnico Leonardo da Vinci in Rome, but did not complete his course, later claiming this was because he "did not want to be associated in any way with bourgeois academic recognition and titles such as doctor and engineer."
Julius Evola | Life
Born in Rubio, Venezuela
Roberto Giusti | Early Life
Dick Giordano, an only child, was born in New York City on July 20, 1932, in the borough of Manhattan to Josephine Labruzzi and Graziano "Jack" Giordano. He attended the School of Industrial Art.
Dick Giordano | Early life
Gaetano Faillace was born September 17, 1904, in New York City to Marcello and Francesca (Sciacca) Faillace.
Gaetano Faillace | Early life
The greater part of the family property was sold, and with the proceeds they emigrated to Italy, bought a small farm in Pescia near Lucca and Pistoia, and set to work to cultivate it themselves.
Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi | Early life
The king gave the chateau of Clos Lucé as his home and regarded him with great esteem. It is said that the king held Leonardo's head as he died. Leonardo is buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert adjacent to the Château d'Amboise in France.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Biography
Leonardo's collective works compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary Michelangelo. Properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo was born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci, in the region of Florence, Italy. Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Italian painter Andrea del Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan, and he later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice. He spent his last three years in France, where he died in 1519.
Leonardo da Vinci | Introduction
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Born in Vigevano in Lombardy, northern Italy, in a rather affluent family, he was one of four children; one sister and two brothers, who both were killed in World War I. He studied at university, first mathematics in Bologna and later at the Faculty of Arts in Pavia.
Tommaso Besozzi | Early life
He was "striking and handsome" and "marvellously endowed by heaven with beauty, grace [and] outstanding physical beauty", and "displayed infinite grace in everything he did".
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Physical characteristics
Ancillotto was born in San Dona di Piave on 15 November 1896. He was studying engineering at Polytechnic University of Turin when World War I began.
Giovanni Ancillotto | Early life
Scarpelli was born in Rome, Italy. He obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Florence, and carried out further research and studies in England and the United States.
Giacomo Scarpelli | Early life
David Paltenghi was born in 1919 in Christchurch, Dorset the son of a Swiss-Italian father and English mother.
David Paltenghi | Early life
Lodovico Leonardo was the son of his brother Giovanni (1736–1774) and Caterina (Pesaro), the heiress of a wealthy noble Israelite family who claimed to descend from Cyrus the Great.
Ludovico Manin | Early life
Contini-Bonacossi was born in Ancona on 18 March 1878 to Camillo Contini and the Countess Elena Bonacossi Bermudez of Ferrara.
Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi | Early life
He was born in Rosario, Argentina into a Calabrian family.
Julio Libonatti | Early life
Son of Anastase and Maria, Leonardos was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 20 February 1937. His father died when he was two years old and he lived with his mother in Alexandria until 1954. He was an avid reader of fiction and history, and as a high school student in Alexandria had his short stories published in Tachydromos and Anatoli, the Greek daily newspapers of the city. In 1954 he moved to Greece to study Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
George Leonardos | Early life
He was born in Tombolo, a small village near Padova, Italy on 3 July 1940.
Ennio Doris | Early life
Andreotti was born in Rome, Italy, in 1950, the son of former Italian Senator and Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. He graduated from Sapienza University of Rome with a degree in engineering; he then achieved a Master of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lamberto Andreotti | Early life
Vasari says of the child Leonardo "He would have been very proficient in his early lessons, if he had not been so volatile and flexible; for he was always setting himself to learn a multitude of things, most of which were shortly abandoned. When he began the study of arithmetic, he made, within a few months, such remarkable progress that he could baffle his master with the questions and problems that he raised... All the time, through all his other enterprises, Leonardo never ceased drawing..." Leonardo's father, Ser Piero, realising that his son's talents were extraordinary, took some of his drawings to show his friend, Andrea del Verrocchio, who ran one of the largest artists' workshops in Florence.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Interests
De Laurentiis was born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples, and grew up selling spaghetti made by his father's pasta factory. He started his studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in the years 1937–1938 then interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War.
Dino De Laurentiis | Early life
Little is known about Leonardo's intimate relationships from his own writing. Some evidence of Leonardo's personal relationships emerges both from historic records and from the writings of his many biographers.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Personal relationships
He was born in Livorno and studied with Cesario Galeffi.
Enrico Delle Sedie | Early life
Pappalardi was born in The Bronx, New York City. A classically trained musician, he graduated from New York City's The High School of Music & Art and attended the University of Michigan.
Felix Pappalardi | Early life
Giovanni Frezza was born in Potenza, Basilicata, Italy.
Giovanni Frezza | Early life
He was born in Nicastro, now part of Lamezia Terme in Calabria.
Francesco Colelli | Early life
He was born on July 4, 1904, at Quitula Aldona, India. He studied in Bombay. He earned a B.Sc. (Mathematics) and Bachelor of Civil Engineering.
Albert Vivian D'Costa | Early life
He was born in 1967, and is the son of Giuseppe De'Longhi. He studied economics at Bocconi University.
Fabio De'Longhi | Early life
DiBiaggio was born in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Detroit. He was the son of Italian immigrants and the first in his family to attend college.
John A. DiBiaggio | Early life
Costanzo was born in Rome, the son of journalist and TV presenter Maurizio Costanzo and writer Flaminia Morandi, and the brother of writer/director Camilla Costanzo..
Saverio Costanzo | Early life
Vendrame was born in Casarsa della Delizia, Province of Pordenone, Italy.
Ezio Vendrame | Early life
Born in Vignola, Cantelli attended the University of Bologna.
Giacomo Cantelli | Early life
Robert A. Delgadillo was born in Los Angeles, California and showed an interest in art from an early age. He states that Hollywood and the animated films of Walt Disney made a major impression on him as a child and inspired him to pursue art as a career.
Robert A. Delgadillo | Early life
Leonardo always loved nature. One of the reasons was because of his childhood environment. Near his childhood house were mountains, trees, and rivers. There were also many animals. This environment gave him the perfect chance to study the surrounding area; it also may have encouraged him to have interest in painting. Later in life he recalls his exploration of an ominous cavern in the mountains as formative.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Love of nature
Born of Italian parents at 2 Clarence Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, 14 November 1852. His parents, Joseph Louis (an optician) and Jane Henrietta Casartelli (Ronchetti), had resided in the area for some time. He was believed to have been considered an intelligent as well as pious child, something which was felt he learned from his mother.
Louis Casartelli | Early life
Caprilli was born in Livorno, Italy.
Federico Caprilli | Early life
Locascio was born on July 11, 1987, he grew up in New Jersey before moving to New York City where he attended the School of Visual Arts.
A. J. Locascio | Early life
Antonaglia was born in Castel San Lorenzo to Italian parents on 19 November 1938.
Giovanni Antonaglia | Early life
DaSilva was born and raised in New York City. He attended SUNY New Paltz where he received a BFA in Painting and Drawing.
Marco DaSilva | Early life and education
While his date of birth remains unknown, it is assumed that he was born in the early years of the 14th century in the village of Murta in the Val Polcevera, today one of the boroughs of the city of Genoa from an affluent commoner family, however his mother was from the powerful Usodimare patrician family.
Giovanni I di Murta | Early life
Acquavella was born on 1 July 1898, in Padula, Provincia di Salerno, Kingdom of Italy, and immigrated to the US in 1919, and started dealing privately in Italian art.
Nicholas Acquavella | Early life
Mainardi was born in Lugo, Italy, on December 29, 1942. He graduated from the University of Bologna in 1966 with a degree in theoretical physics.
Francesco Mainardi | Early life
The only substantial early source of biography is that of Bernardo de' Dominici's unreliable publication of 1742. De Dominici's statements are often contradicted by documented facts and others cannot be substantiated independently. Archival documents state Caracciolo was born in Naples and baptised on 7 December 1578, as the son of Cesare Caracciolo and his wife Elena. The family lived in the parish of San Giovanni Maggiore. On 3 August 1598, at the age of twenty, Caracciolo married Beatrice de Mario. They had ten children, of whom eight survived to adulthood.
Battistello Caracciolo | Early life
He obtained a Ph.D. in "history of visual arts and show business".
Alessandro Agostinelli | Early life
... Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. ... If you want money in abundance, you will end by not enjoying it." He also wrote, "He who wishes to become rich in a day is hanged in a year."
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Character
Since that date much has been written about his presumed homosexuality and its role in his art, particularly in the androgyny and eroticism manifested in "Saint John the Baptist" and "Bacchus" and more explicitly in a number of erotic drawings.
Leonardo da Vinci | Personal life
On 20 October 1965, Pellegrini was born in Asti, Italy.
Lucio Pellegrini | Early life
He was born in Treviso, Italy, on 24 April 1939. He graduated from Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Giuseppe De'Longhi | Early life
Davalos was born in New York City of Spanish and Finnish descent. His family name originally was spelled Dávalos, with an accent on the first "a".
Richard Davalos | Early life
Valiani was born in "Fiume" (now Rijeka), on the Adriatic Sea (then in Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, now in Croatia). In later childhood, Valiani lived in Trieste, and later, Italy.
Leo Valiani | Early life
As a son of a Catholic mother and a Communist father who worked as a shoemaker, Mario Giubilei was born on 30 December 1941 in Nocera Umbra, Perugia, Italy, and grew up in Aumetz, Lorraine, France. In 1962, he performed his military service and was sent to Algeria for 6 months during the Algerian War.
Mario Giubilei | Early life
Furio Niclot Doglio was born in Turin, Piedmont. During the early to mid-1930s, he worked as a test pilot for Italian aircraft manufacturers "Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica" (CNA) and Breda.
Furio Niclot Doglio | Early life
Born in 1554, de' Servi was the son of a diplomat and a Roman Catholic.
Costantini de' Servi | Early life
Gianluigi Aponte was born in Sant'Agnello, Italy (near Sorrento, in the province of Naples) on 27 June 1940.
Gianluigi Aponte | Early life
Born in Townhead, Glasgow, Scotland, to Italian parents-Riccardo and Amelia (originally from Valvori, Italy). He was eldest of seven children-three boys and four girls. Born in a backroom of a shop. He went on to gain a place at the local grammar school.
Ernesto Jaconelli | Early life
Paolo Buggiani was born in the small city of Castelfiorentino, Florence, Italy. In the early fifties he moved to Rome, where he studied Contemporary Art.
Paolo Buggiani | Early life
Tommasina was born in the town of Intra (today part of Verbania) on the shores of Lake Maggiore in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. In his early years, he admired the Italian school of painting, particularly that of Leonardo da Vinci.
Thomas Tommasina | Early life
He was born in Paris. He studied Marine and Aeronautical Engineering.
Jean-Albert Dinkespiler | Early life
Alessandro dal Borro was born in Arezzo, the son of Girolamo dal Borro, a captain and a noble from an illustrious family in Arezzo. Alessandro studied mathematics at the University of Florence.
Alessandro dal Borro | Early life, family and education
Ignorant in architecture, I constructed buildings and streets crammed with little figures. I invented stories for them. These childhood "happenings" - I was eleven years old - were like little films." Upon graduation from the University of Bologna with a degree in economics, he started writing for the local Ferrara newspaper "Il Corriere Padano" in 1935 as a film journalist.
Michelangelo Antonioni | Early life
His father reluctantly consented, and Massimo settled in Rome, devoting himself to art.
Massimo d'Azeglio | Early life
He was born in La Spezia. He studied Particle Physics at the University of Pisa. He did further research at DESY in Germany.
Sergio Bertolucci | Early life
Leonardo was accepted for apprenticeship and "soon proved himself a first class geometrician". Vasari says that during his youth Leonardo made a number of clay heads of smiling women and children from which casts were still being made and sold by the workshop some 80 years later. Among his earliest significant known paintings are the "Annunciation" in the Uffizi, the angel that he painted as a collaboration with Verrocchio in "The Baptism of Christ", and a small predella of the "Annunciation" to go beneath an altarpiece by Lorenzo di Credi. The little predella picture is probably the earliest. The diversity of Leonardo's interests, remarked on by Vasari as apparent in his early childhood, was to express itself in his journals which record his scientific observations of nature, his meticulous dissection of corpses to understand anatomy, his experiments with machines for flying, for generating power from water and for besieging cities, his studies of geometry and his architectural plans, as well as personal memos and creative writing including fables.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Interests
Cesare Magistrini was born in Maggiora, Kingdom of Italy on 26 January 1895.
Cesare Magistrini | Early life
Alfonso Ceccarelli was born in 1532 in Città di Castello, Italy. His father was a notary.
Alfonso Ceccarelli | Early life
DiBartolomeo was born in New York, to an Italian Catholic father, and a Russian-Jewish mother. He grew up in Westport, Connecticut.
John DiBartolomeo | Early life
Giuseppe was born in Milan, Italy. His youth career was spent in Connecticut and later (1993–1995) at Franklin Pierce College.
Giuseppe DePalo | Early life
Cerracchio was born on March 14, 1880 in Castelvetere in Val Fortore, Italy. He emigrated to the United States in 1900, and he became a U.S. citizen in 1905.
Enrico Cerracchio | Early life
Michael White points out that willingness to discuss aspects of Leonardo's sexual identity has varied according to contemporary attitudes. His near-contemporary biographer Vasari makes no reference to Leonardo's sexuality whatsoever. In the 20th century, biographers made explicit references to a probability that Leonardo was homosexual, though others concluded that for much of his life he was celibate.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci | Sexuality
Leonardo Domenici was born in Florence in 1955, later graduating in moral philosophy from the University of Florence.
Leonardo Domenici | Biography
He was born in Italy. He attended the London School of Economics.
Paul Girolami | Early life
Vedova was born in Venice into a working-class family. His artisan roots came from his house-painting father. He was the third child out of seven. Emilio began working at a young age, primarily in a factory. Later he got a job in a photography and restoration studio.
Emilio Vedova | Early life
Born to an Italian immigrant, who had moved to England for economic reasons. Leonard decided to fully adopt British nationality rather than Italian.
Leonard Pagliero | Early life
Dell'Otto was born December 20, 1973 in Rome, Italy. He received a diploma in artistic maturity and registered in the European Design Institute.
Gabriele Dell'Otto | Early life
D'Agata was born on 29 May 1926, in Arezzo, Italy. He had a tough childhood as a consequence of his disabilities, the victim of taunting from fellow school children. Feeling the need to prove himself equal, he resorted to street fighting as a way to demonstrate his equality. D'Agata was one of three children (out of seven) to be born deaf in his family. His parents moved him from Tuscany to Rome at an early age, hoping to find doctors who would cure him. One afternoon he noticed a poster of a boxer adorning the door to a boxing gym.
Mario D'Agata | Early life
Maciag was born in Central Europe. He is the son of prominent academics. His father is the university professor and his mother is a retired art teacher.
Pawel Maciag | Early life
Di Giovanni received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Chieti, Italy and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, CT, USA.
Giuseppe Di Giovanni | Early life
Beneduce was born in Caserta on 29 March 1877. He earned a mathematics degree from the University of Naples.
Alberto Beneduce | Early life and education
Son of Spanish libertarian exiles who came from Argentina, he was born in Paris. His parents were taken in for a while by Agnès Varda who photographed regularly this family of political immigrants. She made the film documentary Ulysse, name of Leonardo's cousin whom she photographed as a child; the film was awarded a César.
Leonardo Marcos | Early life
The manuscript, which now appears to be incomplete, is considered a particularly useful source for the study of the history of Italian art since it is the most comprehensive biographical source before the 1550 edition of Vasari's Lives, which was being compiled over the same period. The account of the life of Leonardo da Vinci is especially detailed, and much used by later authors. One particular point, a later addition to the manuscript, has been much discussed. This states that Leonardo painted a portrait from life of "Piero Francesco del Giocondo" (or possibly just "Francesco del Giocondo"), respectively the son and the husband of Lisa del Giocondo, usually considered the sitter for the "Mona Lisa".
Anonimo Gaddiano | Contents
Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais was born on April 6, 1773 in Langres, France.
Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais | Early life
Vincenzo da Filicaja was born in Florence to an ancient and noble family. From an incidental notice in one of his letters, stating the amount of house rent paid during his childhood, his parents must have been in easy circumstances, and the supposition is confirmed by the fact that he enjoyed all the advantages of a liberal education, first under the Jesuits of Florence, and then in the University of Pisa. At Pisa his mind became stored, not only with the results of patient study in various branches of letters, but with the great historical associations linked with the former glory of the Pisan republic, and with one remarkable institution of which Pisa was the seat.
Vincenzo da Filicaja | Early life
Casanova was born in Munich to Italian and American parents.
Tristano Casanova | Early life
Dário Furtado was born in the capital city of Praia in the country's early years.
Dário Furtado | Early life
Basilio Villarino was born in Noia, Spain, in 1741.
Basilio Villarino | Early life