... ScientistHis father, Ser Piero da Vinci was a public notary for the city of Florence, Italy, and his mother,Catherina was a peasant girl. In Leonardo& apos;s early years, he lived with his mother in Vinci. ... (the forehead, incidentally, of one of the most gifted intellectuals of hertime). These delicate ripples are repeated in the spikes of the juniper bush. The desolate waters, the mists, the dark ... universalacclaim. Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a local lawyer in the small town of Vinci in the Tuscan region. His fatheracknowledged him and paid for his training, but we may wonder whether the strangelyself-sufficient...