The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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daughter of Filippo, Duke of Savoy, and aunt to Francis I, Louis  
XII's successor on the throne of France. Louis XII died on Jan. 1st,  
and not on Jan. 9th as is here stated.-- This addition is written in  
paler ink and evidently at a later date.]  
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On the 24th of June, St John's day, 1518 at Amboise, in the palace  
of...  
[Footnote: Castello del clli. The meaning of this word is obscure;  
it is perhaps not written at full length.]  
XXII.  
Miscellaneous Notes.  
The incidental memoranda scattered here and there throughout the  
MSS. can have been for the most part intelligible to the writer  
only; in many cases their meaning and connection are all the more  
obscure because we are in ignorance about the persons with whom  
Leonardo used to converse nor can we say what part he may have  
played in the various events of his time. Vasari and other early  
biographers give us a very superficial and far from accurate picture  
of Leonardo's private life. Though his own memoranda, referring for  
the most part to incidents of no permanent interest, do not go far  
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