A new collection of documents found within the State Archives of Florence suggests that da Vinci's mother was an enslaved girl kidnapped from the Caucasus.
Leonardo da Vinci's mother was a teenager kidnapped and enslaved in the Caucasus and sent to Italy, a new analysis of nearly 600-year-old documents suggests.
Best known for his painting of the Mona Lisa, da Vinci was an artist, architect, inventor, anatomist, engineer and scientist. He filled dozens of secret notebooks with scientific observations, inventions and anatomical observations. Along with detailed drawings of human anatomy, his notebooks contain designs for bicycles, helicopters, tanks and airplanes.
Vecce found the previously unknown documents while conducting research in the State Archives of Florence. Among them is a Latin certificate, signed by Piero and dated Nov. 2, 1452, that freed Caterina from slavery. A year before, in 1451, Caterina had met Piero after being bought by a Florentine knight to work as a wet nurse, Vecce said.
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