Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . logues and fables borrowed from the vegetable kingdom Toujours furetant, saccommodant de tout, mais friand de bons morceaux, un rataperçut une huître, epanouie dans sa maison entrouverte ; il effleura de ses dents lafrange humide de cette chair trompeuse ; aussitôt les écailles avec bruit se reserrent : lerat est pris, il néchappera plus de ce piège, de ce tombeau, oli il est venu de lui-mêmechercher la mort. Here is Leonardos version : An oyster, being turned out together with other fish in the house of a fisherman nearthe sea, he entre
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . logues and fables borrowed from the vegetable kingdom Toujours furetant, saccommodant de tout, mais friand de bons morceaux, un rataperçut une huître, epanouie dans sa maison entrouverte ; il effleura de ses dents lafrange humide de cette chair trompeuse ; aussitôt les écailles avec bruit se reserrent : lerat est pris, il néchappera plus de ce piège, de ce tombeau, oli il est venu de lui-mêmechercher la mort. Here is Leonardos version : An oyster, being turned out together with other fish in the house of a fisherman nearthe sea, he entreated a rat to take him to the sea. The rat, purposing to eat him, bade himopen, but as he bit him, the oyster squeezed his head, and closed, and the cat came andkilled him. (Richter, vol. ii., j). 335.) 2 Leonardo possessed the Fahulœ de Esopo Jiistoriate, of which numerous editionshad appeared in his time (in 1481, 1483, 1487, 1490 and 1497. DAdda, p. 40). • Richter, vol. ii., p. 336. Landscape anct a Matcr-Spout. t „ r?~- c;->->^.
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