The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Try to get Vitolone, which is in the library at Pavia [Footnote 26:  
Vitolone see No. 1506, note.  
Libreria di Pavia. One of the most famous of Italian libraries.  
After the victory of Novara in April 1500, Louis XII had it conveyed  
to France, 'come trofeo di vittoria'!] and which treats of  
Mathematics,--He had a master [learned] in waterworks and get him to  
explain the repairs and the costs, and a lock and a canal and a mill  
in the Lombard fashion.  
A grandson of Gian Angelo's, the painter has a book on water which  
was his fathers.  
Paolino Scarpellino, called Assiolo has great knowledge of water  
works.  
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Footnote 12: Sco Lorenzo. A church at Milan, see pp. 39, 40 and  
0.]  
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Footnote 13. 24: Gruppi. See Vol. I p. 355, No. 600, note 9.]  
[Footnote 16: The Portinari were one of the great merchant-  
families of Florence.]  
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