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Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in a Tuscan hamlet near Vinci, Italy,
which is located about 40 km away from Florence. Born out of wedlock to a
notary, Ser Piero and (presumably) a slave, Caterina. Leonardo was educated in
the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Andrea Verrocchio, as his
apprentice. Much of his life was spent in the main centres of the Renaissance,
where he worked for the House of Medici and also for the Signoria of Florence.
Furthermore, he was in the service of the Duke Ludovico il Moro in Milan as well
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