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| | Italian Visits - All about Italy - Leonardo da Vinci, painter, poet, sculptor, architect, inventor |
 | | Italian Visits - All about Italy - Leonardo da Vinci, painter, poet, sculptor, architect, inventor |
 | | Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, nicknamed il Salaino ("The Little Unclean One" i.e., the devil), was described by Vasari as "a graceful and beautiful youth with fine curly hair, in which Leonardo greatly delighted." Il Salaino entered Leonardo's household in |
 | | A year later Leonardo made a list of the boy’s misdemeanors, calling him "a thief, a liar, stubborn, and a glutton." The "Little Devil" had made off with money and valuables on at least five occasions, and spent a fortune on apparel, among which were twenty four pairs of shoes. |
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