LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da was an artist, scientist and Italian painter. Universal man of genius and talent of the Italian Renaissance, embodied in the very spirit of his era, leading to higher forms of expression in the various fields of art and knowledge. He was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, engineer, designer, anatomist, writer, musician and inventor. He is considered one of the greatest geniuses of mankind.

Contemporaries reported that an alleged homosexuality of Leonardo, from the anonymous report of 1476 (which ended with acquittal on the other), lack of relationships with women, notes the ambiguity of his relationship with Vasari and his pupils Melzi and Caprotti, much younger than him and comely. (Lupia, 1994)

The statement of Leonardo himself, “it my first memories of my childhood and I think, as I was in the cradle, a kite that I came to me and opened my mouth with his tail," (Lupia, 1994, 54) derived the interpretation of Sigmund Freud, in his book A childhood memory of Leonardo da Vinci, published in 1910, as a fantasy of an oral sex act, while the kite androgyny would be the mother of the sexual curiosity Child artist follows his artistic and scientific curiosity satisfied and never finished.

In the seventeenth century, Francis Arconati, son of Count Galeazzo, da Vinci drew from the writings of these donated to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, a treaty which he called the motion and measurement of water, but will be published only in 1826.

Leonardo devoted himself to hydraulic studies from his stay in Milan, already full of ships, and Lombardy, traversed by a vast network of canals.

Cooperation with the Republic of Venice for the accommodation of the river Brenta buoyancy, to avoid flooding and make it navigable, but you know works on his projects, some of ...