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1. Birth




            Leonardo da Vinci was born in




            1452, April 15th in the Tuscany




            hillside town of  Vinci, hence




            the surname da Vinci, which




            literally means “from the town




            of  Vinci” in Italian. He was born




            in an affluent middle class gentry




            family and a peasant mother out                                                                                              mother, until moving to his




            of  wedlock. He spent his early                                                                                              father's household in 1457. His




            years in the hamlet of  Anchiano,                                                                                            father had remarried many times,




            which was the home of  his                                                                                                   and by the time the last half


                                                                                                                                         sibling of  Leonardo was born, he
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