![]() ![]() It was clear that this would not be a happy family and that the baby was not wanted – at least, not at first.īaby Leonardo may have lived with his mother during the first years of his life, but by 1457, at the age of five, we find him staying in the house of his grandfather, Ser Antonio, in Vinci. Also a notary, Leonardo’s grandfather Antonio made a record of his grandson’s baptism, including all witnesses who attended the event – and what instantly stands out is that Leo’s mother was not there. From his DNA, we know that Leo was the illegitimate son of the Florentine notary Piero di Antonio da Vinci and the orphan girl Caterina di Meo Lippi, so while Leo’s father came from a wealthy family, his mother was considered a nobody. Not surprisingly for the time and place, Leonardo was born out of wedlock. But before we begin, we have to warn you that the little we know about those years is based on scant historical records and lots of wild conjecture. We’ll be focusing on the mysterious early years of the man of the year. The most eagerly anticipated event will be the mega-exhibition at the Louvre, scheduled for the autumn of 2019 and likely to be one of the greatest cultural events in recent decades. This year, a number of cultural institutions will be celebrating the anniversary of the death of that astounding polymath. On that day, as Francis I was holding his head and lamenting the loss of that great man, Leonardo whispered his last words: “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” It was the perfect farewell of a genius – or so the legend goes. We’ve chosen to feature Leonardo because the year 2019 marks the 500-year anniversary of his death on at Clos Lucé, a castle in the city of Amboise, France. Our main character is none other than the legendary Leonardo da Vinci, born on 15 April 1452 in the middle of the night in the small town of Vinci or, more precisely, the hamlet of Anchiano, halfway between Florence and Pisa. ![]() While this article may not act as a guide to raising a baby genius, it will give you an idea of the early years of one of the greatest geniuses of the modern age, who, being human, was undoubtedly once a baby and then a child before assuming the appearance of the bearded old man in the iconic portrait.
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