Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . ry, 1515 ; on the same day—the painter adds—the King of France died. On the 9th of December, 1515, at the latest, Leonardo againfound himself in Milan, for on that day he wrote to his bailiff 1 Richter, vol. ii., p. 247. - Uzielli, I St éd., vol. i, p. 198-199. Uzielli throws some doubt on the authenticityof this letter. ^ The Magnifico Giuliano de Medici left Rome on the 9th of January, 1515, just atdaybreak, to take a wife in Savoy (Richter, vol. ii., p. 417). D D 2 204 LEONARDO DA VINCI (castaldo) Zanobi Boni, to point out, for the be


Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . ry, 1515 ; on the same day—the painter adds—the King of France died. On the 9th of December, 1515, at the latest, Leonardo againfound himself in Milan, for on that day he wrote to his bailiff 1 Richter, vol. ii., p. 247. - Uzielli, I St éd., vol. i, p. 198-199. Uzielli throws some doubt on the authenticityof this letter. ^ The Magnifico Giuliano de Medici left Rome on the 9th of January, 1515, just atdaybreak, to take a wife in Savoy (Richter, vol. ii., p. 417). D D 2 204 LEONARDO DA VINCI (castaldo) Zanobi Boni, to point out, for the benefit of the Fiesolanvineyards, certain improvements in the making of wine. Did Leonardo take part in the competition set afoot by Leo X. forthe façade of San Lorenzo, at Florence ? Nothing is more only did he never do anything to recommend himself as anarchitect to the Pope ; he had even quitted Rome and Florence forthe north before 1516, when the competition began. This was the last time he ever set foot in his native city. ^*ir^\y^. HEAD OF AN OLD MAN. (Windsor Library.)


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