Cronaca, Simone, architect, d. 1508
Cusano, Girolamo danote
Dante; Infernonote; Paradisonote
Dati, Goro, Spera, 1482
Defterdar of Syriaff.
Dei, Benedetto, author of a diary
Deluge; at the time of Noah
Dianira
Diogenes Laertius, History of Philosophy, 3rd century AD
Doctors
Domenicho di Michelino, painter
Donatus, A., De octo partibus orationis, Latin syntax
Dowries
Drapery
Dreams
Echo
Egypt
Elba
Elements, four et al.; in colour
Epicurus
Este, Beatrice d’; Ercole d’; Ippolito d’ f.; Isabella d’
Ethiopia, black races
Euclid, Elements; Opticsnote; De Ponderibus
Europe
Evangelista de Predis
Evolution
Experience, in scienceff.; in painting
Experiment, in science
Expression in art
Eye; its anatomy; its function; its movement; animals’ eyes; points of view and fields of view; see also perspective
Fables
Fazio, Cardano, juristnote
Fegline, Girolamo; Gironimo
Ferere, Ambrosio, custom officer
Ferrara
Fiesole
Filelfo, Francesco, Epistles, 1484; Dialogo, 1478
Fior di Virtù, Bestiaryh century and later
Fioravante di Domenico
Fire .
Fish; cuttlefish; dolphin; eel; grampus; gurnard; pike; shellfish; tench; whale
Flame
Flint
Florence; Academy of St Luke, the painters’ guild; Bargello; cathedral and baptistery; fortifications; garden of Medici; libraries; Loggia dei Lanzi; Palazzo Vecchio; Piazza Strozzi; Santa Maria Novella, Sala del Papa; Santa Maria Nuova; Signoria
Foligno
Food
Force, power, et al.
Forzore, Niccolo di, engravernote
Fossil
Francis I of France
Frezzi, Federigo, poet, Quadriregio, 1481
Friars
Friction
Friendship
Friuli
Gaddiano, Anonimo
Galeazzo di San Severino, owner of horses
Galileinote
Gallerani, Cecilia
Gellius, A., c. AD , Noctes Atticae note
Geneva
Genoa
Geometric foundation of painting
Geotropism
Germany
Ghiringhello, Giovanni, professor, at Pavia
Ghirlandaio, Domenico, painter
Gian Angelo, painter
Giant
Ginori, P. F., patron
Giocondo, Fra, architect
Giotto, painter
Giraldi, Giovanbatista, Discorsi, 1554
Gold
Gonfolina
Gonzaga, Gianfrancesco, of Mantua
Gorizia
Gualtieri, Bascape of Candia
Guidotto da Bologna, Retorica Nova, 1260
Gusnasco da Pavia, lutenist
Guy de Roy, archbishop of Sens, Doctrinal de Sapience, 1388
Guzzarati, vegetarians; see also Food
Hammer
Harff, Arnold von
Heliotropism
Horace, Satiresnote
Imola
Impetus, percussion
Innsbruck
Insects: ant; ant-lion; bee; butterfly; caterpillar; cricket; dragonfly; grasshopper; hornet; moth; spider; wasp
Intellect
Introbbio
Isabel of Aragon
Isidore of Seville, historian, d. Chronica maiora
Jests
Jordanus of Nemore, German mathematician, d. c.1237, De Ponderibusnotenote
Justinus, Marcus Junianus, Latin epitome of Trogus’s Historiae Philippicae, 5 note
Kait Bey, Sultan of Egypt
Lactantius, Firmianus, early Christian writer
Lapidary
Laws of Nature
Leo X, Medici pope
Leonardo da Vinci: his birth, parentage, and early environment; his father; his family affairs; his apprenticeship; his assistants; Salaì, Giacomo; Caterina, housekeeper; Maggi, carpenter; his assets and properties: deposits at S. Maria Nuova, Florence f.; vineyard at Fiesole; vineyard and garden near Milan; right to water in canal near Milan; his will and death his funeral Architect; plans; pavilions; stable; transportable houses; turret; consultations about Milan Cathedral, about Pavia Cathedral; see also Architecture Draughtsman; first dated drawing, Uffizi; Bandini, Bonnat Collection; list of drawings, c.1482; head of Madonna, Louvre; head of Francesco Nani, Victoria and Albert Museum; stage scenery, Metropolitan Museum of Art; illustrations for Pacioli; profile of Isabella d’Este, Louvre; cartoon of Virgin, Child, and St Anne, National Gallery, London; Vitruvius’ proportionsff.; drawings at Windsor; maps at Windsor Engineer; water supply of Milan Castle; water mill; Martesana Canal; sluice at Friuli; Florence’s access to sea; draining of Pontine marshes; canal project on Loire; drainage; see also Canalization Inventor: flying machines; mint in Rome; needle sharpener; parachute; rolling mill; sandglass; submarine; telescope; war engines Musician; painting accompanied by music; see also Music Painter: Paintings and commissions, Labours of Hercules; altarpiece for Chapel in Signoria; Adoration of Magi, Uffizi; St Jerome, Vatican Museum; Virgin of the Rocks; Last Supper; picture for king of Hungary; plan for altarpiece at Brescia; Virgin and Child with St Anne and a lamb, Louvre; Battle of Anghiari; Leda and Swan; St John the Baptist, Louvre; Madonnas; Madonna of the Yarnwinder (in Buccleuch and other private collection); Portraits, Benci, Ginevra de’, Washington, National Gallery; Crivelli, Lucrezia (‘La Belle Ferronière),
Louvre; Gallerani, Cecilia, Czartoryski Museum; Mona Lisa, Louvre; wall decorations in Castle of Milan, of Vigevano; see also Painting Projector of scenery and festivals; ducal wedding; Festa del Paradiso; Festival at Argentan, at Cloux; masquerades; Taccone’s Danae Scientist: theorist; mechanician; anatomist; astronomist Sculptor; monument of Francesco Sforza; monument of Trivulzio; help given to Rustici; see also Sculpture Writer: on flight; on painting; on ‘Transformation’; De Vocie; on water; tales and allegories; debates; see also above under Scientist. Letters to: Benedetto Dei; Defterdar of Syria; Giuliano de’ Medici; Ippolito d’ Este; Ludovico Sforza; Melzi, Francesco; Pallavicino, A. M.note; Venetian Senate; da Vinci family; Works Departments on architecture
Leopardi, Alessandro, Venetian architect and caster
Lepanto, battle
Light and shade
Lightning, thunderbolt
Ligny, Comte
Liguria
Lippi, Filippino, painter
Livy, Decades, Venice, 1478
Lomazzo, G. P.
Lombardy
Lorenzo di Credi, painter
Louis XII of France
Lucan, Latin poet, Pharsalia
Lustre
Macchiavelli
MacCurdy, E., Notebooks of L.d.V., 1939
Maggiore, Lake
Mals
Mandeville, Jehan de, 14th-century writer on travels
Maneto, Manetti
Manganello, 16th-century author
Mantua; Marquess
Marignano, battle
Mariolo da Guiscardi, at Sforza court note
Marliani, Girolamo, physician note
Marliano, Giovanni, author, books on motion, 1482
Marius note
Marmocchi, Carlo, astronomer note
Martelli, Piero di Braccio, patron
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, architect and engineer
Marullus, Hymn on Sun, 1487
Masaccio, painter
Maso delle Viole
Mathematics; see Euclid
Mathias, king of Hungary note
Maximilian, emperor
Mechanics; applied mechanics
Medici, Giovanni de’, see Leo X; Giuliano de’, murder of; Giuliano il Magnifico; Lorenzo il Magnifico; Lorenzo Piero di Francesco
Melzi, Francesco; his letter to Leonardo’s brothers
Memory
Memphis
Metals
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Michelangelo da Viviano, goldsmith
Microcosm and Macrocosm
Migliorotti, Atalante, musician
Milan; plan of; book on; Brera; Brolio hospital; Castello; cathedral; Comasina Gate; Corte Vecchia; Piazza Cordusionote; San Francesco, Fraternity of Immaculate Conception; San Lorenzonote; San Nazaro; Santa Maria delle Grazie; tower of Credenza; tower of Vaneri; vineyard outside Milan
Miniatore, Bartolomeo, Formulary of letters
Mirror
Mohammed, on wine
Mona Lisa
Money, see Wealth
Monferrato, Lombardy
Montefeltro, Urbino
Moon
Motion, movement et al.; in time; of body
Mountains ; Adula range; Albano; Alps; Apennines; Atlas; Capraia; Caucasus; Ceceri: of Como; Etna; of Gravedona; Hyperborean Mts.; of Ivrea; La Grigna; La Verna; Lupo; of Mandello; Mario; Monbracco (quarry); Rosa; Sinai; Stromboli; Taurus; Ural; of Verona; Viso
Music, comparison with painting; comparison with poetry; harmony; rhythm; intervals; repetition; voice; instruments: bell; horn; lute; pipe; tymbals; instruments played by a watermill
Nani, Francesco, of Brescia
Naples
Necromancy
Nesso
Niccolo da Correggio, poet from Ferrara, d. 1508
Night, representation of
Noah
Novellara, Fra Pietro di, of the Carmelites
Ovid, Epistles; Metamorphoses note
Pacioli, Luca
Painter’s course of study; way to study
Painting, compared to music and poetry; to sculpture; composition; science of
Pallavicino, Antonio M., Milanese noble
Pandolfini, Francesco, Florentine ambassador at Milan
Paper
Parma
Patience
Pavia; cathedral; library; Saracino inn; statue Regisole; walls
Pearl fishing
Pelacani, Biagio, philosopher note
Perréal, Jean, French painternote
Perspective; aerial perspectivenote
Perugia
Perugino, Pietro, painter
Pesaro
Petrarch
Pharisees
Phyllotaxis
Physiology
Piacenza
Piombino
Pisa
Pistoia
Plants; acorn; beech; cherry tree; chestnut; citron; corn; fig-tree; fir; gourd; grain; grapes; laurel; lily; mulberry; myrtle; nuts; oak; olive; peach-tree; pear-tree; pine; privet; seed; trees ; vine; walnut; willow
Platina, see Sacchi
Plato, Timaeusnotenote
Pleasure and pain
Pliniana, Villanote
Pliny the Elder; Natural History
Plutarch, on rhythm
Poetry compared to painting
Poggio, Facetie, two editions in 15th century
Pontine marshes
Portinari, Benedetto, Florentine merchantnote
Prato; San Pietro
Prato Magno
‘Prophecies’
Proportion
Psalms, El Psalterio de David, Venice, 1476
Ptolemaic systemnote
Pucci, Antonia, poet, d. 1388, Historia della Reina d’Oriente
Pulci, Luca, Il Driadeo, 1479
Pulci, LuigiMorgante, 1483
Pythagoras
Rainbow
Raphael
Raphaello, Hieronymo, of the Signoria
Razors
Rhazes, Arab physician, Treatise on health
Rhodes
Richter, J. P., Literary Works of L.d.V., 1939.
Rimini
Rivers ; Adda; Adige; Adria; Arna; Arno; Chiana; Danube; Don; Dora; Isonzo; Latte; Loire; ‘Mediterranean river’; Mensola; Mera; Nile; Oglio; Po; Tiber; Ticino
Robertet, Florimond, French patron
Romagna
Rome; Belvedere; Hadrian’s
Villa; Hospital Santo Spirito,
San Paolo; Vatican
Romorantin
Rudder, helm
Rustici, Gian Francesco, sculptor
Sacchi, Bartolomeo (Platina), De la honesta, voluptate e valetudine, c.1470; De arte coquinaria note
Saint Christopher
Saint Gervais
Sallust, Jugurthine Warnote
Saluzzo
Sansovino, Andrea, sculptor
Sant Angelo, near Po
Santa Maria degli Angeli
Santa Maria Itre
Sasina, Val
Savonarola
Savoy
Sawyers
Scarpellino, P., called Assiolo
Scopeto, San Donato monastery
Screw
Sculpture, compared to painting; basso relievo; stone carving; casting
Scythia
Seas et al.; Adriatic; Aegean; Black; Mediterranean; Indian Ocean; see also Water, Tides
Senses, the fivenote et al.
Sensus Communis
Sforza, Bianca Maria; Francesco; Gian Galeazzo; Galeazzo Maria; Ludovico il Moro
Shadow; see also Light and shade
Shells
Shingle
Siena
Siren
Sleep
Sluice
Smoke
Snow, see Water
Soderini, Pier, of Signoria
Soul
Spinelli, Niccolo di Forzore, engraver
Spirit
Spiritual energy
Sponge, see Water
Stanga, Marchesino
Stone by the roadside
Straits, of England; Gibraltar; Golden Horn; Propontis; Scylla and Charybdis; of Sicily
Submarine
Sun et al.
Swimming
Swiss soldiers
Syracuse
Taccone, Baldassare, dramatist
Tempest
Thomas Aquinas
Tides
Time; and movement; in art
Tinder
Tivoli
Torre, Marcantonio della, anatomist
Toscanelli, Paolo, scientistnote
Tovaglia, A., merchant
Treviso
Trivulzi, Giacomo, Milanese noble
Trogus, Pompeius, Philippic History note
Truth and Falsehood
Turin, Biblioteca Reale
Turks
Universe
Urbino
Vacuum
Valentino, see Borgia
Valtellina
Valturius, Robertus, On Warfare note
Vante, see Attavante
Vaprio
Vaprio, Agostino, painternote
Vasari, Giorgio, Le vite dei pittori, scultori ed architetti, 1550 and 1568
Vegetarians; see also Food
Venice; Academy
Verona
Verrocchio, A., sculptor and painter; Statue of Colleoni
Vespucci, Amerigo
Vigevano, Castle; vineyards
Vimognio
Vinci
Visconti
Vitellozzo, condottiere
Vitolone (Witelo), Polish mathematician
Vitruvius, De Architectura note
Voice; see also Music
War engines, weapons; armoured car; arrow, bow, crossbow; bastions; bombard; bridges; cannon; carbine; catapult; field lances and hunting whips; gun; mortar; spears, swords; submarine
Water, the elementet al.; bubble; current; dew, drop; fountain; inundation, see also Deluge; rain; snow; sponge; swimming; vapour; see also Clouds; waves; see also Canalization, Rivers, Seas, Tides
Water mill
Water m
ill, stairs; wheels
Wealth and poverty
Weighing instruments
Weight et al.
Wheels
Whirlwind
Wind
Wine
Wippach
Witelo, see Vitolone
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Copyright Page
PREFACE
Introduction
NOTE ON THE TEXT
Acknowledgements
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
A CHRONOLOGY OF LEONARDO DA VINCI
NOTEBOOKS
I - TRUE SCIENCE
I. EXPERIENCE
II. REASON AND NATURE’S LAWS
III. MATHEMATICAL DEMONSTRATION
IV. EXPERIMENT
V. SEARCH FOR TRUE KNOWLEDGE
II - THE UNIVERSE
I. THE FOUR ELEMENTS
II. THE FOUR POWERS OF NATURE
III. MECHANICS - REFERENCES TO BOOKS ON APPLIED MECHANICS
III - FLIGHT
I. MOVEMENT THROUGH WIND AND WATER
II. STRUCTURE OF BIRDS’ WINGS
III. SWIMMING AND FLIGHT
IV. FLYING MACHINE
IV - THE ARTS
I. THE ARTIST’S COURSE OF STUDY
II. COMPARISON OF THE ARTS
III. ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING
IV. THE ARTIST’S LIFE
V - TALES AND ALLEGORIES
I. BESTIARY
II. FABLES
III. PROPHECIES
IV. JESTS
V. SYMBOLISM
VI. IMAGINATIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF NATURE
VI - REFLECTIONS ON LIFE
I. LIFE PASSES
II. LIFE OF THE BODY
III. LIFE OF THE SPIRIT
IV. ON GOVERNMENT
VII - LEONARDO’S WAY THROUGH LIFE
I. FIRST FLORENTINE PERIOD ( c . 1464/9 - 1482/3)
II. FIRST MILANESE PERIOD (1481-1499)
III. SECOND FLORENTINE PERIOD (1500 - 1506)
IV. SECOND MILANESE PERIOD (1506-1513)
V. ROMAN PERIOD (1513-1516)
VI. FRENCH PERIOD (1516-1519)
EXPLANATORY NOTES
REFERENCES TO MANUSCRIPTS AND SOURCES
INDEX
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