The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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No sooner is Virtue born than Envy comes into the world to attack  
it; and sooner will there be a body without a shadow than Virtue  
without Envy.  
[Footnote: The larger of the two drawings on PI. LXI is explained by  
the first 21 lines of this passage. L. 22 and 23, which are written  
above the space between the two drawings, do not seem to have any  
reference to either. L. 24-27 are below the allegorical twin figure  
which they serve to explain.]  
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78.  
When Pluto's Paradise is opened, then there may be devils placed in  
twelve pots like openings into hell. Here will be Death, the Furies,  
ashes, many naked children weeping; living fires made of various  
colours....  
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79.  
John the Baptist  
Saint Augustin  
Saint Peter  
Paul  
Elisabeth  
Saint Clara.  
Bernardino  
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