The Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. 4 (1881) - Page 16

INSIDE OF THE COVER.

[NOTES, QUOTES, AND A JOKE]


Horace original: "oratio"; likely referring to Horace Romano, a 15th-century poet and secretary to Pope Nicholas V. wrote on the speed of the heavens.	— Concave mirrors — Books from Venice — Italian and Latin dictionary — Bohemian knives — Vitruvius The Roman author of "De architectura," the foundational text for Renaissance architects. — Meteorology Aristotle’s "Meteorologica." — Archimedes: On the Center of Gravity — Anatomy by Alessandro Benedetto A famous physician and anatomist who died in 1525. — The Dante of Niccolò della Croce	— Aristotle’s philosophy — Messire Ottaviano Pallavicino, for his Vitruvius — Go every Saturday to the bathhouse original: "stufa"; public steam baths where artists often studied human anatomy. and you will see nudes. — Inflate the lung of a pig and see if it grows in width and length, or in width and decreases in length.

Little Albert likely Leon Battista Alberti, the famous polymath. and Marliano: On Calculation

Albert [the Great]: On the Heavens and the World — from Brother Bernardino

Someone seeing a woman dressed to hold a shield in a joust,

looked at the buckler and cried out, seeing her lance: "Alas, this is

too small a worker for such a large shop!" A common bawdy joke of the era using sexual metaphors.

From Master Maffeo: why the Adige A river in northern Italy. rises for 7 years

and falls for 7 years