Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . which you will knowso well how to devise, to recommend Leonardo Vincio, your Lordshipsvery eager servant, as I still am and claim to be always, to his favour,and to request and authorise him not only to do me justice, butgive me a favourable verdict ; and I do not doubt, according to thenumerous reports that have been brought to me, that the said SignorRaphael being filled with affection for your Lordship, things will turnout as we desire, which I shall attribute to the letter from yourreverend Lordship, to whom I once more present my re
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . which you will knowso well how to devise, to recommend Leonardo Vincio, your Lordshipsvery eager servant, as I still am and claim to be always, to his favour,and to request and authorise him not only to do me justice, butgive me a favourable verdict ; and I do not doubt, according to thenumerous reports that have been brought to me, that the said SignorRaphael being filled with affection for your Lordship, things will turnout as we desire, which I shall attribute to the letter from yourreverend Lordship, to whom I once more present my respects. Etbene valeat. Florence, this i8th of September, 1507. Your Very Reverend Lordships very humble servant, Leonardius Vincius, pictor. ^ But, more than any other thing, the failure to fix the Battle ofAiighiari upon the wall of the Council Hall disgusted the artist witha work which might have retained him in his own city. So once again Leonardo turned his face to a foreign country. Campori, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1866, p. 45. x^^T 1 ,,--<^.Y. sicETCiiiis or iti-:ads.(Windsor Library.)
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