. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. .ïïSSj. LEONARDOS CHARACTER theatre, treatises on painting, on sculpture, and many other works ofthe highest merit—such are Albertis titles to the admiration andgratitude of posterity. Butthe Renaissance, on ap-proaching maturity, wasto endow another son ofFlorence with yet greaterpower, a still wider with Leonardohow pedantic, how nar-row, nay, how timorousAlberti appears ! These faculties of themind in no wise prejudicedthe qualities of the Raphael, Leonardowas distinguished for hisinfinite kindliness, like h
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. .ïïSSj. LEONARDOS CHARACTER theatre, treatises on painting, on sculpture, and many other works ofthe highest merit—such are Albertis titles to the admiration andgratitude of posterity. Butthe Renaissance, on ap-proaching maturity, wasto endow another son ofFlorence with yet greaterpower, a still wider with Leonardohow pedantic, how nar-row, nay, how timorousAlberti appears ! These faculties of themind in no wise prejudicedthe qualities of the Raphael, Leonardowas distinguished for hisinfinite kindliness, like himhe lavished interest andaffection even upon dumbanimals. Leonardo, Vasaritells us, had so muchcharm of manner and con-versation that he won all hearts. Though, in a certain sense,he had nothing of his own and worked little, he always foundmeans to keep servants and horses, of which latter he was veryfond, as indeed of all animals ; he reared and trained them with asmuch love as patience. Often, passing the places where they soldbirds, he would buy some, and
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