He has been called 'the most relentlessly curious man in history', and was the quintessential Renaissance man.

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His early life in Vinci
Apprenticeship in Verrocchio's workshop
Keeping notebooks
"The most relentlessly curious man in history"
How everything in the world is connected
Writing a letter to the Duke of Milan
Painting The Last Supper
Later life & moving to France
Leonardo Da Vinci as a misfit in Florentine society: illegitimate, left-handed, uninterested in fame, homosexual, vegetarian
Love for animals
Work as an anatomist
Work as an engineer
The Mona Lisa
"I haven't achieved enough"

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