The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Item. The same Testator gives and bequeaths henceforth for ever to  
Battista de Vilanis his servant one half, that is the moity, of his  
garden which is outside the walls of Milan, and the other half of  
the same garden to Salai his servant; in which garden aforesaid  
Salai has built and constructed a house which shall be and remain  
henceforth in all perpetuity the property of the said Salai, his  
heirs and successors; and this is in remuneration for the good and  
kind services which the said de Vilanis and Salai, his servants have  
done him in past times until now.  
Item. The said Testator gives to Maturina his waiting woman a cloak  
of good black cloth lined with fur, a ... of cloth and two ducats  
paid once only; and this likewise is in remuneration for good  
service rendered to him in past times by the said Maturina.  
Item. He desires that at his funeral sixty tapers shall be carried  
which shall be borne by sixty poor men, to whom shall be given money  
for carrying them; at the discretion of the said Melzo, and these  
tapers shall be distributed among the four above mentioned churches.  
Item. The said Testator gives to each of the said churches ten lbs.  
of wax in thick tapers, which shall be placed in the said churches  
to be used on the day when those said services are celebrated.  
Item. That alms shall be given to the poor of the Hotel-Dieu, to the  
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