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Appendix I: Notable Personages Appendix I: Notable Personages Villard de Honnecourt (thirteenth century?) –– Livre de portraiture (ca. 1230) Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt (thirteenth century?) –– Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete (Letter of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foucaucourt, Soldier, on the Magnet) (1269) Guido da Vigevano, (Pavia, ca. 1280–Paris, after 1349) –– Texaurus regis Francie (1335) –– Liber notabilium illustrissimi principis Philippi septimi, Francorum regis, a libris Galieni per me Guidonem de Papia, medicum suprascripti regis atque consortis eius inclite Iohanne regine, extractus, anno Domini 1345 (1345) Giovanni Dondi dell’Orologio (Chioggia, ca. 1330–Abbiategrasso, 1388) –– Completion of the astronomical clock Astrarium (1364) –– Tractatus astrarii (fourteenth century) Konrad Kyeser (1366–after 1405) –– Bellifortis (ca. 1405) Filippo Brunelleschi (Florence, 1377–1446) –– Cupola (Dome) of Duomo of Florence (1420–1436) Anonymous of the Hussite Wars –– Manuscript of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars (after 1472) Mariano Daniello di Jacopo (Taccola) (Siena, 1381–ca. 1458) –– De Ingeneis (ca. 1419–1450) –– De Machinis (1449) © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 343 P. Innocenzi, The Innovators Behind Leonardo, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90449-8 344 Appendix I: Notable Personages –– Copy of De Machinis from Paolo Santini (colored manuscript version, second half of the fifteenth century) Ms. Lat 7239, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Giovanni Fontana (Venice, 1395?–after 1454) –– Bellicorum instrumentorum liber (ca. 1430) –– Nova compositio horologi 1418) –– De horologio aqueo (ca. 1417) Leon Battista Alberti (Genoa, 1404–Rome, 1472) –– Ludi mathematici (1448) –– De re aedificatoria (1450) Roberto Valturio (Rimini, 1405–1475) –– De re militari (1472) printed version in Latin –– De re militari (1483) printed version in Italian Piero della Francesca (Borgo Sansepolcro, ca. 1416/1417–Borgo Sansepolcro, 1492) –– De prospectiva pingendi (ca. 1460–1480) –– De quinque corporibus regularibus (ca. 1472 and 1475) –– Trattato d'abaco (ca. 1450) Giovanni Giocondo da Verona (Fra Giocondo) (Verona, ca. 1433–Romea, 1515) –– Inlays of Santa Maria in Organo in Verona (1520) Francesco di Giorgio Martini (Siena, 1439–1501) –– Codicetto (drawings of machines) (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome) Codex Urb. Lat. 1757 –– Opusculum de architectura (British Museum, London) Codex 187.b.21 (drawings without text, machines and fortresses, ca. 1476) –– Trattato di architettura civile e militare (I version). (1479–1484) Codex Ahsburnham 361, Biblioteca Laurenziana; Codex Saluzziano 148, Biblioteca Reale of Turin –– Trattato di architettura civile e militare (II version). (1485–1492) Codex Senese S.IV.4, Biblioteca Comunale di Siena; Codex Magliabechiano II.1.141, parte 1. Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze –– Traduzione Vitruviana (Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze) Codex Magliabechiano II.I.141, parte 2 Anonymous (after Mariano di Jacopo (Taccola) and Francesco di Giorgio) –– Drawings of machines. Late fifteenth century. Ms Palatino 767. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence Appendix I: Notable Personages 345 –– Drawings of machines. End of fifteenth century. Codex S.IV.5. Biblioteca Comunale, Siena –– Book of machines (Anonymous Sienese Engineer) Late fifteenth century. Ms Additional 34113. British Library London Giuliano da Sangallo (Florence, ca. 14431516) –– Sienese sketchbook (Taccuini Sienesi) (1490s–1516) –– Codex Barberini (post 1464–ante 1516). Luca Pacioli (Borgo Sansepolcro, ca. 1445–Rome, 1517) –– Divina Proportione (1509) –– Translation into Latin of the Elements of Euclid (1509) –– De Ludo Scachorum (manuscript, in Italian ca. 1500) –– De Viribus quantitatis (ca. 1500) –– Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni e proportionalità (1494) Philipp Mönch (?) –– Kriegsbuch (1496) Lorenzo della Volpaia (Florence, 1446–1512) –– The realization of the Orologio dei Pianeti (Clock of the planets) 1510 Bonaccorso Ghiberti (Florence, 1451–1516) –– Zibaldone (ca. 1500) Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452–Amboise, 1519) –– Codex Atlanticus (different topics: geometry, physics, architecture, 1480–1518) (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) –– Codex Arundel (different topics: geometry, warfare, architecture, mechan- ics of machines, botany, zoology, 1480–1518) (British Library, London, UK) –– Codex Ashburnham (assorted drawings, 1489–1492) (Institut de France, Paris) –– Windsor folios (drawings of different subjects: anatomy, maps, studies of human figures, 1478–1518) (Royal Library at Windsor Castle, UK) –– Codex Forster I (1490–1505), Codex Forster II (1495–1497), Codex Forster III (geometry, mechanics, hydraulic, 1490–1496) (Library of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK) –– Codex Madrid I (mechanics, 1490–1496) (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain) –– Codex Madrid II (geometry, 1503–1505) (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain) 346 Appendix I: Notable Personages –– Codex Trivulzianus (architecture, religious themes, exercises, 1487–1490) (Biblioteca Trivulziana, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy) –– Codex on the Flight of Birds (study of the flight of birds, 1505) (Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Italy) –– Codex Leicester (hydraulics and movement of water, 1505) (former Hammer Codex) (Bill Gates, Seattle, Washington, USA) –– Manuscripts of France A-M (various topics: optics, geometry, warfare, hydraulics, 1492–1516) (Institute de France) –– Trattato della pittura (Compiled by Francesco Melzi using 18 manu- scripts of Leonardo; only six of them have been identified, A, E, F, G, L, Trivulziano and a Windsor folio) Giovanni Battista della Valle (Venafro, ca. 1470–1550) –– Il Vallo (The Book of Captains) 1521. Cesare Cesariano (Milan, 1475–1543) –– Translation into Italian of Vitruvio’s De Architectura (1521) Vannuccio Biringuccio (Siena, ca. 1480–ca. 1539) –– Pirotechnia (1534–1535), published posthumous in Venice, 1540 Damiano Zambèlli (fra Damiano da Bergamo) (Zogno (Bergamo) ca. 1490– Bologna 1549) –– Inlays of the Basilica di San Domenico in Bologna (1549) Jamnitzer Wenzel (Wien, 1508–1585) –– Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (1568) Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511–Florence, 1574) –– Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori (1550) Daniele Barbaro (Venice, 1514–Venice, 1570) –– Della Perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro, Eletto Patriarca d'Aquileia. Opera molto utile a Pittori, a scultori & ad Architetti (printed in Venice 1569). Carlo Urbino (Crema, ca. 1510/20–Crema, after 1585) –– Codex Huygens (mid-sixteenth century) Agostino Ramelli (Ponte Tresa, 1531–1608) –– Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli Dal Ponte Della Tresia. (in French and Italian) 1588 Paris. Jacques Besson (Colombière (Briançon) ca. 1540–England, 1573) –– Theatrum instrumentorum (1571–1572) Appendix I: Notable Personages 347 Fausto Veranzio (Sebenico, 1551–Venice, 1617) –– Machinae novae (printed in Venice 1606) Vittorio Zonca (Padova, 1568–1602) –– Novo teatro di machine et edificii. Per varie et sicure operationi con le loro figure tagliate in rame e la dichiaratione et dimostratione di ciascuna (printed in Padua 1607, posthumous) Giovanni Branca (Sant'Angelo in Lizzola, 1571–Loreto 1645) –– Le machine: volume nuovo et di molto artificio da fare effetti maraviglio si tanto spirituali quanto di animale operatione arichito di bellissime figure con le dichiarationi a ciascuna di esse in lingua volgare et latina (1629) Lorenzo Sirigatti (after 1554–1625) –– La pratica di prospettiva del cavaliere Lorenzo Sirigatti (printed in Venice, 1596) Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608 Naples–1679 Rome) –– De Motu Animalium (On the Movements of Animals) 1680, posthumous Appendix II: A Short Biography of Leonardo da Vinci 15 April 1452 Leonardo was born in Anchiano, close to the Tuscan town of Vinci, which was at that time part of the Republic of Florence, ruled by the Medici family. He was the first son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a wealthy gentleman working as a legal notary in Florence, and a peasant woman named Caterina di Meo Lippi, a 15-years-old orphane. Because of their difference in social status, Piero da Vinci decided to take the child without marrying Caterina and found a suitable husband for Leonardo’s mother. Leonardo’s grandfather carefully recorded his birth in the family diary: “nacque un mio nipote, figliolo di ser Piero mio figliolo a dì 15 aprile in sabato a ore 3 di notte” (A grandson of mine, son of my son Piero, was born on April 15, Saturday, 3 hours into the night). In modern terms with the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in October 1582, this would be 23 April around 9.30 pm. Leonardo spent most of his childhood with his paternal grandfather, Antonio, also a legal notary, and his uncle Francesco. The two men provided for his education. 1464: To Florence At the age of 12, Leonardo moved to Florence to live with his father. 1466–1476: Apprentice at Verrocchio’s Workshop At the age of 14, Leonardo joined the workshop of Andrea di Cione (known as Verrocchio), one of the most famous artists in Florence. During his appren- ticeship, Leonardo produced his first known painting, the face of an angel appearing in Verrocchio’s Battesimo di Cristo (Baptism of Christ). Leonardo’s first dated work (1473) is an ink drawing of the Arno valley. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 349 P. Innocenzi, The Innovators Behind Leonardo, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90449-8 350 Appendix II: A Short Biography of
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