. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. i Idr671 of the Third Marriage : Antonio born 1476. Ser Giuliano born 1479. Lorenzo born 1484. Violante born 1485. Domenico, born i486. Descendants living at the present day. I Pierino da Vinci. Giovanni Childre?i of the Fourth Marriage : Margherita born 1491. Benedetto born 1492. Pandolfo born 1494. Guglielmo born 1496. Bartolommeo, born 1497, ancestor of praise, and infinite grace in all his actions ; as for his talent, it wassuch that, no matter what difficulty presented itself, he solved it with-out effort. In him dexterity was allie
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. i Idr671 of the Third Marriage : Antonio born 1476. Ser Giuliano born 1479. Lorenzo born 1484. Violante born 1485. Domenico, born i486. Descendants living at the present day. I Pierino da Vinci. Giovanni Childre?i of the Fourth Marriage : Margherita born 1491. Benedetto born 1492. Pandolfo born 1494. Guglielmo born 1496. Bartolommeo, born 1497, ancestor of praise, and infinite grace in all his actions ; as for his talent, it wassuch that, no matter what difficulty presented itself, he solved it with-out effort. In him dexterity was allied to exceeding great strength ;his spirit and his courage showed something kingly and , his reputation assumed such dimensions that, wide-spread asit was during his life-time, it extended still further after his , to whom we owe this eloquent appreciation, concludes with aphrase, untranslatable in its power of rendering the majesty of theperson described: Lo splendor dell aria sua, che bellissimo era, i6 LEONARDO DA VINCI. rissereneva ogni animo mesto. ( The splendour of his aspect, whichwas beautiful beyond measure, rejoiced the most sorrowful souls.) Leonardo was gifted by nature with most unusual r^~ muscular strength : he could twist the ^.-([^ ^ clapper of a bell or a horse-shoe as if it \3^ <v=ji-v.,—.^?^ were of lead, A species of infirmity, however, was mingled with this extra-ordinary aptitude : the artist was left-handed—his biographers assert this formally ^—and in his old age, paralysis finally deprivedhim of the use of his right hand. The Renaissance had already produced oneof these exceptional organisations, combiningthe rarest intellectual aptitudes with everyphysical perfection, beauty, dexterity, once mathematician, poet, musician, philoso-pher, architect, sculptor, an ardent disciple ofthe ancients, and a daring innovator, LeoneBattista Alberti, the great Florentine thinkerand artist, excelled in all physical
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