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The publication of a book insinuating that Leonardo da Vinci was only half Italian agitates Italy and the world of culture. This theory changes the whole story of the author of “La Joconde” and could also explain all the richness of his genius.
Leonardo da Vinci would be the son of a slave from the Caucasus. This revelation shakes up theItaly because his genius would not be 100% Tuscan. In Rome (Italy), in the aisles of the museum dedicated to him, it is the effect of amazement. “Universal genius becomes truly universal. He is no longer just Italian, he represents other country“, testifies a member of the museum.
A slave resold several times
Carl VectorItalian scholar and author of the controversial work on the genius of the Renaissance, exhumed from the archives of Florence, an act of emancipation of Caterina, so that she regains her freedom. Dated 1452, this official document was produced during Leonardo da Vinci’s birth year. “There Leonardo’s mother (from Vinci) was a slave, a girl, a woman, who at some point in her life was abducted and taken away from her homeland to the Caucasus Mountains. Sold, resold several times in Constantinople, in Venice, before finally arriving in Florence“, he explains.
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