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Title: Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902
Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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EKUOCCHIOS HEAD OF DAVID, (Musee National of Florence.) 1 A calumny long rested on the memory of Leonardo, which was only dissipatedwhen at last the keepers of the Archives of Florence were prevailed upon to givepublicity to the documents connected with certain law proceedings. An anonymousperson had denounced him, with three other Florentines, as having had immoralrelations with a certain Jacopo Salterello, aged seventeen, apparently apprenticed toa goldsmith. In consequence, the accused appeared, on April 9, 1476, before thetribunal sitting at San Marco. They were all acquitted, on condition that theyshould come up again after a fresh enquiry. At the second hearing, which took placeJune 7, 1476, the case against them was definitively dismissed. We see thereforethat his contemporaiies had already exonerated him. (Arc/iivio storiio dcll Arte, 1896,PP- 313—315-)
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A HEAD BY LEONARDO FOR VERROCCHIO S DAVID. (Weimar Museum) 34 LEONARDO DA VINCI having sown his wild oats, Atalante, like so many others, resignedhimself to a subordinate position, and became a kind ofbureaucrat — sorry climax to a career that had begun sobrilliantly! In 1513, the same year in which Leonardo made histriumphal entry into Rome surrounded by a constellation ofpupils, Atalante filled the post of inspector of architectural works atthe Papal Court. It was, at least, a last slight bond between him andArt; twenty-two years later, in 1535, on the eve of his death, he wasstill occupying this obscure situation, which left him ample leisureto meditate upon the follies of his youth. As to Zoroastro di Peretola, the pupil, and not the fellow-studentof Leonardo, we shall consider him later on. The reader knows something of the atmosphere that reignedin Verrocchios studio. Let us now endeavour to trace its actionupon so impressionable a mind as that of the youthful Leonardo.First a

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