The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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See too GREGOROVIUS, Geschichte der Stadi Rom, VIII (book XIV.  
III, 2): Die Luftschlosser furstlicher Grosse, wozu ihn der Papst  
hatte erheben wollen zerfielen. Julian war der edelste aller  
damaligen Medici, ein Mensch von innerlicher Richtung, unbefriedigt  
durch das Leben, mitten im Sonnenglanz der Herrlichkeit Leo's X.  
eine dunkle Gestalt die wie ein Schatten voruberzog. Giuliano lived  
in the Vatican, and it may be safely inferred from No. 1352 l. 2,  
and No. 1353 l. 4, that Leonardo did the same.  
From the following unpublished notice in the Vatican archives, which  
M. Eug. Muntz, librarian of the Ecole des Beaux arts, Paris, has  
done me the favour to communicate to me, we get a more accurate view  
of Leonardo's relation to the often named GIORGIO TEDESCO:  
Nota delle provisione (sic) a da pagare per me in nome del nostro  
ill. S. Bernardo Bini e chompa di Roma, e prima della illma sua  
chonsorte ogni mese d. 800.  
A Ldo da Vinci per sua provisione d. XXXIII, e piu d. VII al detto  
per la provisione di Giorgio tedescho, che sono in tutto d. 40.  
From this we learn, that seven ducats formed the German's monthly  
wages, but according to No. 1353 l. 7 he pretended that eight ducats  
had been agreed upon.]  
would acquire the Italian language. He always promised, but would  
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