Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . hip that my litigation with my brothers is nearing its end, and that I hopeto be in Milan by shall bring with metwo pictures of the Ma-donna, different in size,intended for the MostChristian King or forany one else that yourlordship may choose. Ishall be glad to knowwhere I am to fix myhabitation when I return,as I wish no longer toincommode your Excel-lency. I should also hketo know besides, havingworked for the MostChristian King, whethermy pension is to continueor not.—I am writingto the President aboutthe right of water theK
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . hip that my litigation with my brothers is nearing its end, and that I hopeto be in Milan by shall bring with metwo pictures of the Ma-donna, different in size,intended for the MostChristian King or forany one else that yourlordship may choose. Ishall be glad to knowwhere I am to fix myhabitation when I return,as I wish no longer toincommode your Excel-lency. I should also hketo know besides, havingworked for the MostChristian King, whethermy pension is to continueor not.—I am writingto the President aboutthe right of water theKing gave me. I have never yet been put in enjoyment of theprivilege, because at the time there was not much water in thecanal in consequence of the great drought, and because the open-ings (?) had not been regulated. But he promised that I should We may note lliat in 1510 and again in 1511, Mc. Léonnard painctrc figures onthe budget of the Duchy of Milan for tlie sum of 400 livres a year {Chronique de Jean(TAutoii, éd. de Maulde, vol. ii., p. 386).. STUDV FOR THE MADONNA DEL GATTO.(Bonnat Collection, Paris.) LOUIS SECOND ENTRY INTO MILAN 189 be put in possession as soon as the régularisation had Ijccn pray your lordship, then, to be good enough to lake the: trouble,now that the openings are regulated, to remind the President ofmy rights, so that 1 may get the said water; for I hope, when 1come, to make machines and other things which will give greatpleasure to our Most Christian King. I have nothing more to tellyou. I am always at your orders. In another letter, addressed toP>ancesco Melzi, Leonardo returns to these same claims, which werein the end satisfied. Once more, in 1509, Louis XII. wrote his name large on thePasti of Milan, which atthat time contained somany brilliant pages. Oncemore, on the first of May,he made a Joyeuse En-trée into the ancientcapital of the Visconti andthe Sforzi. It is said thatthe master of the cere-monies was no other thanLe
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