Who was Leonardo da Vinci's mother? Now new research claims to have an answer.
culture — was in fact just half-Italian, according to the theory revealed Tuesday, with his mother a slave from the Caucasus.
The ”smoking gun” among the previously unknown documents Vecce claims to have found in the State Archives in Florence is an act of liberation of a slave called Caterina by her mistress, Monna Ginevra, who was the wife of a “Florentine adventurer” who owned slaves from the Black Sea region. “At the time many slaves were named Caterina, but this was the only liberation act of a slave named Caterina Ser Piero wrote in all his long career," Vecce said."Moreover, the document is full of small mistakes and oversights, a sign that perhaps he was nervous when he drafted it, because getting someone else’s slave pregnant was a crime.”
If da Vinci’s heritage was just half-Italian, as the research suggests, it would add a new layer to Leonardo’s rich legacy.The Circassians are a mainly Muslim ethnic group that lived in the north of the Caucasus until the 19th century, when more than a million people were forced to flee their homeland after Czarist Russia invaded the area.
Until today, one of the most respected theories about da Vinci's mother came from Martin Kemp, another Leonardo expert and a former Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford in England.
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