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Research into the iconic polymath's parentage has claimed da Vinci's mother was not a Tuscan peasant, as previously thought, but a slave from the Caucasus.

Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the "Mona Lisa" and a symbol of the Renaissance, was only half-Italian, his mother a slave from the Caucasus, new research revealed on Tuesday, according to yahoo.news

Da Vincis mother had long been thought a Tuscan peasant, but University of Naples professor Carlo Vecce, a specialist in the Old Master, believes the truth is more complicated.

FLORENCE, Italy: It is a mystery that has intrigued and confounded scholars for centuries: Who, exactly, was Leonardo da Vinci’s mother?

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/italian-novelist-leonardos-da-vincis-mother-was-a-slave/"></div>MILAN (AP) — An Italian scholar and novelist has provided fresh fodder for an old debate over the identity of Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, proffering a recently unearthed document as evidence that she arrived on the Italian peninsula as a slave from the Caucasus region of Central Asia. Carlo Vecce, an Italian literature professo...

A new collection of documents found within the State Archives of Florence suggests that da Vincis mother was an enslaved girl kidnapped from the Caucasus.

MILAN (AP) — An Italian scholar and novelist has provided fresh fodder for an old debate over the identity of Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, proffering a recently unearthed document as evidence that she arrived on the Italian peninsula as a slave from the Caucasus region of Central Asia.

A newly-discovered document has shed new light on the origins of the Renaissance icon Leonardo da Vinci, the master painter of the Mona Li

Carlo Vecce, an Italian literature professor at the University of Naples L’Orientale, has revealed his theory in a new novel, Il Sorriso di…

An Italian scholar has provided fresh fodder for an old debate over the identity of Leonardo da Vinci’s mother