This film tells the story of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, best known as Leonardo da Vinci, a fifteenth-century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, who left behind ...

Many believe his mother was Caterina di Meo Lippi, a local peasant. His father, Ser Piero da Vinci, held elevated status as a notary—a professional path that Leonardo would have been expected to ...

Michele Agnolo di Lodovico Buonarroti was a ... A small Tuscan village where Leonardo, the illegitimate son of notary Ser Piero da Vinci and a local woman named Caterina, was born on April 15 ...