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	Leonardo da Vinci: Tutte le informazioni su Leonardo da Vinci su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leonardo venne, assieme ad altri tre giovani uomini, accusato di condotta omosessuale e prosciolto per mancanza di prove.
		Leonardo sfruttò in parte queste conoscenze anatomiche (probabilmente le più profonde del suo tempo) sia nel campo artistico che nella meccanica: suo è il primo progetto documentato di un robot umanoide attorno al 1495.
		Nel 1502 Leonardo da Vinci produsse il disegno di un ponte a campata unica di 240 metri, come parte di un progetto di ingegneria civile per il Sultano Beyazid II di Costantinopoli.
	www.encyclopedia.it /l/le/leonardo_da_vinci.html (1400 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leonardo was born in Anchiano, near Vinci, Italy.
		Leonardo is well known for the masterful paintings attributed to him, such as Last Supper (Ultima Cena or Cenacolo, in Milan), painted in 1498, and the Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda, now at the Louvre in Paris), painted in 1503–1506.
		Leonardo appears again in the Star Trek universe, in the series Star Trek Voyager, where his workshop is created as a holographic simulation.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Leonardo_da_Vinci (2074 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leonardo da Vinci
		From Milan, Leonardo went to Mantua where he sketched (1500) the portrait of the Marchesa Isabella d'Este, the cartoon of which is one of the wonders of the Louvre.
		Leonardo was more a scholar than a philosopher, nevertheless his wholly naturalistic science implies a certain philosophy, which if it is neither the kind of paganism nor the materialism in which the Renaissance so often resulted cannot be called truly Christian.
		Breve vita de Leonardo da Vinci, scritta da anonimo del 1500, manuscript of the Magliabecchiana, at Florence in Archiv.
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	Leonardo Da Vinci: Last Supper, picture, painting, Mona Lisa, drawing, invention, art, notebook, flying machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leonardo was taken on not for his artistic abilities, but as chief architect and engineer to supervise the fortification of central Italy's papal territories, and his work often took Leonardo away from Florence, to Urbino and other cities in central Italy.
		Additionally, Leonardo believed that the earth came out of the sea, and some historians would argue it is the sea we observe in the background; and finally there is the lady herself in the foreground who is, many agree, pregnant.
		Leonardo reportedly kept to himself during these years; uninterested in the great building project of the Basilica of St. Peter, such work went instead to a younger generation, including Michelangelo and Raphael, the latter who was widely known to borrow from Leonardo's ideas.
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	Leonardo da Vinci
		A little later is Leonardo's portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, the young wife of a prominent Florentine merchant, in which her oily face with softly contoured lips is seen against a background of mysteriously dark trees and a pond.
		Leonardo joined this principle to two others: perspective of clarity (distant objects progressively lose their separateness and hence are not drawn with outlines) and perspective of color (distant objects progressively tend to a uniform gray tone).
		Leonardo began filling the notebooks with data and drawings, and the visual intensity that was always his starting point reveal his other scientific interests: firearms, the action of water, the flight of birds (leading to designs for human flight), the growth of plants, and geology.
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	ipedia.com: Leonardo da Vinci Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) was a celebrated Italian Renaissance architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor and painter.
		Leonardo is well known for his masterful paintings, such as Last Supper (Ultima Cena or Cenacolo, in Milan), painted in 1498, and Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda, now at the Louvre in Paris), painted in 1503-1506.
		Leonardo did not publish or otherwise distribute the contents of his notebooks.
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	Island of Freedom - Leonardo da Vinci
		Leonardo's equally impressive contribution to science is a modern rediscovery, having been preserved in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known only in the 20th century.
		Leonardo was born on Apr. 15, 1452, near the town of Vinci, not far from Florence.
		In it, Leonardo displays for the first time his method of organizing figures into a pyramid shape, so that interest is focused on the principal subject--in this case, the child held by his mother and adored by the three kings and their retinue.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /DAVINCI.HTM (1225 words)

	leonardo de vinci and last supper and other supper related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		de Rennes, France (in French) Museum of Science, Boston Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist National Gallery of Australia Study for the head of Christ for The Last Supper, ca...
		Leonardo da Vinci Timeline: The High Renaissance The first object of the...
		LÃ©onard de Vinci, L'homme et son oeuvre, Somogy.
	www.nethorde.com /supper/leonardo-de-vinci-and-last-supper.html (365 words)

	Leonardo Vinci -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leonardo Vinci -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		He first became known for his (Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken) comic operas in Neapolitan dialect in 1719; he also composed many serious (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) operas.
		This entry was originally from the (Click link for more info and facts about 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica) 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leonardo_vinci.htm (131 words)

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