Who does not know the famous Leonardo da Vinci, often described as a symbol of the universal spirit of Renaissance and a science genius.
Leonardo was born on April 14, 1452 in Vinci (Tuscany), and died on May 2, 1519 in Ambroise (Touraine), of an Italian father Pierre de Vinci, a notary. According to the latest discoveries, and after researching the archives of the city of Florence, the eminent Italian academician Carlo Vecce, professor at the University of Naples and Renaissance specialist, claimed on March 14, 2023 to have found the act of emancipation of Leonardo’s mother written by Pierre da Vinci, the father of the latter and which allows the young girl to regain her freedom and her dignity as a human being.
Leonardo da Vinci’s mother is not the daughter of a Tuscan peasant as she has always been presented, but a Circassian slave who was kidnapped in the Caucasus mountains by the Tartars, sold and resold several times in Constantinople, then to Venice, finally arriving in Florence, where she met Leonardo da Vinci’s father.
