![]() Da Vinci’s uncle, who had a particular appreciation for nature that da Vinci grew to share, also helped raise him. Beginning around age 5, he lived on the estate in Vinci that belonged to the family of his father, Ser Peiro, an attorney and notary. ![]() With other partners, they had a total of 17 other children, da Vinci’s half-siblings.ĭa Vinci’s parents weren’t married, and his mother, Caterina, a peasant, wed another man while da Vinci was very young and began a new family. In his own time he was known just as Leonardo or as “Il Florentine,” since he lived near Florence-and was famed as an artist, inventor and thinker.ĭid you know? Leonardo da Vinci’s father, an attorney and notary, and his peasant mother were never married to one another, and Leonardo was the only child they had together. ![]() Da Vinci was born in Anchiano, Tuscany (now Italy), in 1452, close to the town of Vinci that provided the surname we associate with him today. ![]()
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