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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
