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  1. Mar 18, 2023 · Leonardo da Vinci’s mother was a slave trafficked into Italy, an expert on the Renaissance artist has claimed.. In a new novel, a dramatized account of her life, Renaissance scholar Carlo Vecce ...

  2. Mar 15, 2023 · Related: Scientists may have cracked the mystery of da Vinci's DNA "Leonardo's mother was a Circassian slave," Vecce said at a news conference on Tuesday (Mar. 14).

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  4. Mar 28, 2023 · Kemp identified a 1457 tax return filed by Leonardo’s grandfather, Antonio da Vinci, who listed his family members, including Piero da Vinci’s illegitimate son, “born of him and Caterina ...

  5. Aug 14, 2021 · As per Martin Kemp and art researcher Giuseppe Pallanti, the mother of Leonardo was a 15-year-old girl who lived in a farmhouse just a mile away from Vinci. Caterina was an orphan, and after the death of her parents, she lived with her grandmother and 2-year-old brother, Papo. According to Pallanti and Kemp, Caterina’s grandmother died before ...

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  6. Mar 29, 2023 · A recently discovered note, drawn up by Leonardo da Vinci's father, Piero, in November 1452, shows that he emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina.

  7. Biography. 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. He was the out-of-wedlock son of the wealthy Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a ...

  8. Mar 15, 2023 · Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci was the son of a slave from the Caucasus. That’s according to The Smile of Caterina, the mother of Leonardo, a new book by Italian historian Carlo Vecce that was presented Tuesday in Florence. The research may represent a turning point in studies on Da Vinci, who continues to hold interest hundreds of ...