The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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[Footnote: There is no sketch belonging to this passage. Galeazze  
here probably means Galeazze di San Severino, the famous captain who  
married Bianca the daughter of Ludovico il Moro.]  
Occasional references to the Sforza monument (719-724).  
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19.  
Again, the bronze horse may be taken in hand, which is to be to the  
immortal glory and eternal honour of the happy memory of the prince  
your father, and of the illustrious house of Sforza.  
[Footnote: The letter from which this passage is here extracted will  
be found complete in section XXI. (see the explanation of it, on  
page 2).]  
7
20.  
On the 23rd of April 1490 I began this book, and recommenced the  
horse.  
7
21.  
There is to be seen, in the mountains of Parma and Piacenza, a  
multitude of shells and corals full of holes, still sticking to the  
rocks, and when I was at work on the great horse for Milan, a large  
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