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Giacomo Andrea
: Giacomo Andrea of Ferrara, architect and engineer, adherent of Ludovico Sforza, was executed when the French took Milan in 1499.
Marco
: probably Leonardo’s pupil Marco d’Oggionno (
c
.1475-1530).
Maestro Agostino of Pavia
: Agostino Vaprio of Pavia, a painter called to Milan in 1490 to help decorate the ducal castle.
292
Gian Antonio
: probably Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467-1516), pupil of Leonardo.
Messer Mariolo
: Mariolo da Guiscardi was a prominent member of the Sforza court for whom Leonardo had planned a palace.
293
Ghiringhello . . . Pelacano
: Giovanni di Ghiringhelli was professor at Pavia 1443-9. Biagio Pelacani (
c.
1347-1416) was a teacher of philosophy at Pavia, Bologna, and Padua and author of works on Aristotle and on Perspective.
299
Ptolemy
: second-century AD Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. Leonardo is drawing from Ptolemy’s
Geographia
, or
Cosmography
, which outlines a comprehensive system for the making of maps, and applying it to the human body.
314
Ligny . . . Rome . . . Naples
: these words were spelled backwards, presumably for reasons of secrecy.
Jean de Paris
: Jean Perréal (
c
.1455-1530), the French painter, accompanied Charles VIII and Louis XII to Italy.
327
Niccolò di Forzore
: Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli, engraver and medallist (1430 - 1514).
328
St Peter
: the battle was fought on St Peter and St Paul’s day, 29 June 1440.
338
your Excellency
: another almost identical draft gives the name of the addressee as Antonio Maria, probably Antonio Maria Pallavicino, a distinguished Milanese noble, interested in the road and water system of Lombardy.
the president
: Geffroy Carles, president of the Dauphiné, vice-chancellor of Milan. See p. 334.
339
Messer Girolamo da Cusano
: member of the Milanese Senate.
346
Biagino Crivelli
: at one time head of the crossbowmen of Ludovico Sforza.
Master Benedetto
: probably Benedetto Briosco (
c
.1460-
c
.1526).
347
De Ponderibus
: see note to p. 284.
348
Platina
: Bartolomeo Sacchi, called ‘Il Platina’, humanist historian who produced
De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine
(
On Decent Pleasure and Good Health
) (
c.
1470), a popular book on the nature of foods with recipes based on Martino’s
Libro de Arte Coquinaria
(
Book on the Art of Cookery
).
363
23rd day of April 1518 before Easter
: date according to the French calendar. In 1518 Easter fell on 4 April, while in 1519 it fell on 24 April. The will was therefore written on 23 April 1519, nine days before his death.
REFERENCES TO MANUSCRIPTS AND SOURCES
ABBREVIATIONS
Numbers relate to folios. r. and v. mean recto and verso (front and back), o means cover of manuscript. For example: C.A. 150
v
means back of folio 150 of the Codex Atlanticus.
CHAPTER I
1
C.A. 119
v
/327
v
.
2
C.A. 117
r
/323
r
.
3
W. 19084
r
.
4
Triv. 20
v
.
5
B.N. 2038 19
r
.
6
C.A. 154
r
/417
r
.
7
Urb. 33.
8
B. 4
v
.
9
Triv. 33
r
.
10
Forster III 14
r
.
11
C.A. 86
r
./234
r
.
12
E. 55
r
.
13
C.A. 345
v
/949
v
.
14
C. 23
v
.
15
Forster III. 43
r
.
16
I. 18
r
.
17
C.A. 147
v
/398
v
.
18
W. 19118
v
.
19
G. 96
v
.
20
W. 19084.
21
Urb. 1.
22
A. 8
v
.
23
Leic. 25
v
.
24
Leic. 11
r
.
25
A. 47
r
.
26
M. 57
r
.
27
F. 2
v
.
28
I. 130
r
.
29
G. 47
r
.
30
G. 8
r
.
31
E. 8
v
.
32
W. 19045
v
.
33
W. 19048
v
.
34
Leic. 29
v
.
CHAPTER II
1
C.A. 385
v
/1067
r
.
2
F. 27
r
.
3
B.L. 160
r
.
4
B.L. 175
r
.
5
B.L. 155
v
.
6
H. 95
r
.
7
F. 87
v
.
8
Leic. 15
v
.
9
Leic. 17
v
.
10
E. 12
r
.
11
C. 26
v
.
12
A. 26
r
.
13
Leic. 26
v
.
14
W. 19092.
15
B.L. 57
r - v
.
16
C.A. 84
v
/227
v
.
17
F.L. 15.
18
C.A. 296/810
r
.
19
W. 12579
r
.
20
Leic. 34
v
.
21
C.A. 20
r
/64
r
.
22
B.L. 19
r
.
23
Leic. 36
v
.
24
C.A. 361
v
/1007
r
.
25
Leic. 31
r
.
26
Leic. 3
r
.
27
Leic. 36
r
.
28
F. 80.
29
Leic. 9
v
.
30
Leic. 10
v
.
31
C.A. 155
r
/418a.
32
F. 23
v
.
33
W. 19108
r
.
34
C.A. 126
v
/350
r
.
35
B.L. 30
v
.
36
Leic. 1
v
.
37
Leic. 6
v
.
38
Leic. 31
v
.
39
B.L. 138
r
.
40
C.A. 328
v
/901
r
.
41
Leic. 10
v
.
42
C.A. 263
v
/711
r
.
43
Leic. 13
r
.
44
Leic. 1
v
.
45
Leic. 32
v
.
46
Leic. 27
v
.
47
F. 35
r
.
48
C.A. 108
v
/302
r
.
49
A. 61
r
.
50
A. 9
v
.
51
F. 87
v
.
52
C.A. 169
r
/461
r
.
53
C.A. 270/729
r
.
54
Leic. 4
r
.
55
F. 25
v
.
56
A. 55
v
.
57
C.A. 212
v
/728
v
.
58
A. 54
v
.
59
A. 56
r
.
60
C.A. 171
r
/468
r
.
61
B.L. 235
r
.
62
W. 19048
r
.
63
W. 19047
v
.
64
B. 4
v
.
65
B.L. 279
v
.
66
C.A. 190
r
/518
r
.
67
E. 15
v
.
68
B.L. 94
v
.
69
B.L. 54
r
.
70
F. 56
r
.
71
W. 12669
r
.
72
F. 5
r
.
73
B.L. 184
v
.
74
C.A. 123
r
/340
r
.
75
Forster II 117
r
.
76
Ven.
77
C.A. 117
r
/324
r
.
78
W. 19009
r
.
79
B.L. 145
v
.
80
W. 19060.
81
B.L. 204
r
.
82
B.L. 205
r
.
83
Turin 1
r
.
84
Turin 2
v
.
85
Forster II 116
v
.
86
B.L. 195
r
.
87
B.L. 123
r
.
88
I. 22
v
.
89
B.L. 151
v
.
90
C.A. 253
r
/683
r
.
91
B.L. 151.
92
H. 71
v
.

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