Vinci

April 15, 2017
Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 , in the Tuscan village of Vinci, an illegitimate son of a local lawyer.

August 5, 2016
Inscribed “day of Holy Mary of the Snows on the 5 th August 1473” in the top right corner, Leonardo da Vinci’s pen-and-ink view of the Tuscan hills is the first dated landscape in history.

June 24, 2016
Today, June 24th, is the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist.

April 15, 2016
Though he had no children, Leonardo da Vinci had twenty-three half-brothers and half-sisters , most of whom had children.

April 15, 2016
Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452, in Anchiano, near Vinci.