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Jan 27, 2016 · This book of the dead, which lists burials from 1499 through the late eighteenth century, not only offers precious information about which of Leonardo's relatives found their final rest in Florence at the Badia but also provides invaluable help in reconstructing the disposition of the church interior.
Signature. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci[b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3] While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which ...
The Book of the Dead is the name given to an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC. [1] ". Book" is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts [2] consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey ...
The Da Vinci Notebooks at sacred-texts.com. 1372. p. 416. On the 9th of July 1504, Wednesday, at seven o'clock, died Ser Piero da Vinci, notary at the Palazzo del Podestá, my father, --at seven o'clock, being eighty years old, leaving behind ten sons and two daughters. 699
- Leonardo Da Vinci – The Facts and Myths
- Leonardo Da Vinci and The Ottomans
- Vlad The Impaler – Dracula
- Vlad’s Brother – Not The Ottoman Commander and/or Gedik Ahmed Pasha
- Lorenzo de Medici (The Magnificent/Il Magnifico)
- Giuliano Medici
- Clarice Orsini
- Carlo de Medici
- Lucrezia Donati
- Andrea Del Verrocchio
What or, rather, who do we all remember when we hear the word “Renaissance”? Undoubtedly, Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the names that come to mind first. As one of the most significant artists of the age, Da Vinci surely etched his name in golden letters on the leaves of history books. In spite of primarily being known as a painter, the hand behind ...
In season 3 of Da Vinci’s Demons (SPOILER) Leonardo is seen trying to defend Otranto against the Ottoman Empire and witnesses that they are using his designs to attack and capture the city. The show added many things to the story of Leonardo’s life to make the scenario more intriguing and colorful and this, his designs being used by the Ottomans, i...
Vlad the Voivode of Wallachia (“voivode” means both “prince” and “warlord” in Romanian language) and his brother Radu were given to the Ottoman Empire as “political hostages” by their father, Vlad II Dracul, who was dethroned as the ruler of Wallachia, in order to secure Ottomans’ support in regaining control of Wallachia and to prove he would rema...
Vlad the Impaler had a brother named Radu and he lived with the Ottomans for a long time in their court as a well-respected man. He was assigned to act as the ruler of Wallachia at two different times by the Ottomans. However, he was most definitely NOT Gedik Ahmed Pasha, the Ottoman commander as it was depicted in the TV show. This is a huge twist...
Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492) is portrayed as the ruler of Florence in Da Vinci’s Demonsas a wealthy banker who is married to a woman from another noble family, Clarice Orsini. Both of these are very accurate reflections of the historical facts. Lorenzo Medici was the ruler of the Florentine Republic as he inherited the task from his father, Piero ...
Giuliano Medici is depicted as the younger brother of Lorenzo Medici in Da Vinci’s Demons. He is killed in a chapel as a result of an evil scheme conspired by the Pazzi family. Just like it is shown in the TV production, Giuliano de Medici was murdered in the Florence Cathedral, Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (Il Duomo Di Firenze) on 26thof Apri...
Clarice Orsini was the wife of Lorenzo Medici, the daughter of Jacopo Giacomo Orsini and mother of Pope Leo X (their second oldest son with Lorenzo). Although she is portrayed in Da Vinci’s Demons as a woman of strong will and free thought, the real Clarice Orsini was a woman of faith known for her strict opinion of religion, which resulted in her ...
Carlo de Medici was the illegitimate child of Cosimo de Medici from a slave named Maddelena rumored to be an African slave (some accounts state his mother might have been a Circassian woman). Unlike the portrayal of the character on TV, Carlo was a man of religion and an important clergyman abiding by his father’s wishes for him to serve the church...
One of the most important characters in Da Vinci’s Demonsis Lucrezia Donati, a beautiful woman who happens to be Da Vinci’s lover and who is depicted as Lorenzo Medici’s mistress and the daughter of the real Pope Sixtus IV. According to historical accounts, Lucrezia Donati was married to Niccolo Ardinghelli, a cardinal of Italian Roman Catholic Chu...
Andrea Del Verrocchio (Andrea di Michele di Franceso de Cioni) was a painter, goldsmith and sculptor who tutored many important names such as Leonardo da Vinci, Francesco Botticini, Pietro Perugino, Lorenzo di Credi and Domenico Ghirlandaio in his workshop in Florence. He did many works for the Medici family, both as paintings and sculptures and he...
Biography. [] Leonardo was born to unmarried parents on 23-24 April 1452 (old system: 15 April 1452), "at the third hour of the night" [ 4 ] in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of the Republic of Florence. He was the out-of-wedlock son of the wealthy Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci ...
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This book of the dead, which records burials from 1499 through the late eighteenth century, not only offers precious information about which of Leonardo’s relatives found their final rest at the Badia Fiorentina but also provides invaluable help in reconstructing the disposition of the church interior.3 This article traces the history of the Da Vinci tomb from its first burial in 1474 to its ...
