It turned out who was the mother of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci's mother was kidnapped and enslaved, according to a new analysis of nearly 600-year-old documents.

when she was a teenager and lived in the Caucasus. She was sold and sent to Italy.

According to documents discovered by the Italianhistorian, Da Vinci's mother, Caterina, was kidnapped and taken from her home near the Black Sea in Circassia before being sent to Venice.

If the data is accurate, then LeonardoDa Vinci, considered one of the greatest artists and scientists of the Renaissance, was only half Italian. Carlo Vecce, professor of Italian literature at L'Orientale University in Naples, used this discovery as the plot of a historical novel. The book—titled “Il Sorriso di Caterina” (“Caterina’s Smile”)—contains factually accurate details of his research, Vecce said. However, the results have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

“Leonardo’s mother was a Circassian slave, —Vecce said at a recent press conference. - She was taken from her home in the Caucasus Mountains, sold and resold several times in Constantinople, then in Venice, before finally arriving in Florence, where she met a young notary, Piero da. ;Vinci", who was the father of Leonardo.

Leonardo Da Vinci was an artist,architect, inventor, anatomist, engineer and scientist. After himself, he left dozens of encrypted notebooks with scientific observations, inventions and anatomical observations. Along with detailed drawings of human anatomy, his notebooks contain drawings of bicycles, helicopters, tanks and airplanes.

Studying Da Vinci's family historycomplicated by the fact that so far it has only been possible to trace the ancestry of his father. Other historians suggest that Da Vinci's mother was an orphan and living in an abandoned farmhouse when she met Piero Da Vinci.

But the only reliable known fact aboutThe family of the famous scholar was that his parents were not married and he was born out of wedlock in the Tuscan town of Anchiano, in the family of a notary Piero da Vinci and a woman named Caterina.

Vecce discovered previously unknown documents,conducting research at the State Archives of Florence. Among them is a Latin charter, signed by Piero and dated November 2, 1452, which freed Catherine from slavery. A year earlier, in 1451, Caterina met Piero after a Florentine knight bought her to work as a wet nurse, Vecce said.

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