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MILAN — 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
Over the years, researchers have speculated that the artist’s mother might have been a local peasant, an orphaned teenager of humble birth or a woman of Jewish or Chinese origins
The book is based on a newly uncovered document that was supposedly written by da Vinci’s father in 1452.
New research claims Leonardo da Vinci was son of a slave
An author has a theory that the artist’s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia.