INTRODUCTION
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
Sometimes, things that don’t seem to start out well turn out to be the best things after all. Leonardo had a very humble start when he was born in the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany, Italy, in 1452. His father, Piero, a well-off legal notary, didn’t marry Leonardo’s mother, a peasant named Caterina. Not only was Leonardo not expected to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a notary, but that kind of education and career were not available to him.
In fact, he would have very little formal education at all. But he got something better for a boy full of curiosity. By the time he was fourteen, Leonardo’s talent as an artist was already evident, and his father found him a position as an apprentice, working ...
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