The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Footnote 4: Lorenzo. See No. 1351, l. 10 (p. 408). Amoretti gives  
the following note in Mem. Stor. XXIII: 1505. Martedi--sera a di  
4 d'aprile. Venne Lorenzo a stare con mecho: disse essere d'eta  
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d'anni 17 .. a di 15 del detto aprile ebbi scudi 25 d'oro dal  
chamerlingo di Santa Maria nuova. This, he asserts is derived from  
a MS. marked S, in quarto. This MS. seems to have vanished and left  
no trace behind; Amoretti himself had not seen it, but copied from a  
selection of extracts made by Oltrocchi before the Leonardo MSS.  
were conveyed to Paris on the responsibility of the first French  
Republic. Lorenzo, by this, must have been born in 1487. The  
sculptor Lorenzetto was born in 1490. Amoretti has been led by the  
above passage to make the following absurd observations:  
Cotesto Lorenzo, che poi gli fu sempre compagno, almeno sin che  
stette in Italia, sarebb' egli Lorenzo Lotto bergamasco? Sappiamo  
essere stato questo valente dipintore uno de'bravi scolari del  
Vinci (?).  
Il Fafoia, perhaps a nickname. Cesare da Sesto, Leonardo's pupil,  
seems to have been in Rome in these years, as we learn from a  
drawing by him in the Louvre.  
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466.  
On the 3rd day of January.  
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