His father, Ser Piero, was a great admirer of Leonardo's gifts or qualities, according to one of his biographers, Vasari recounts that beginning the career of this noble artist: his father one day took several of his drawings and went to the workshop of his friend Andrea del Verrocchio and insistently asked him to tell him his opinion regarding Leonardo's drawings, to find out if the young man could dedicate himself to the art of drawing and become a renowned person in that field. She liked to draw caricatures and played practicing writing with reflections in the Tuscan dialect. Since he was a child, Leonardo liked to observe nature, who enjoyed seeing the animals and plants. Ser Piero, with the profit obtained after the sale of the drawing made by Leonardo, decided to buy a plate drawn with a heart pierced by an arrow, and it was the drawing that he gave to the peasant. The young Leonardo painted on the plate the image of a dragon breathing fire, and the drawing turned out so well that his father Ser Piero preferred to sell the plate to a Florentine art merchant, who in turn sold it to the Duke of Milan.
According to the biographer of the 1568th-century Renaissance painters, Giorgio Vasari, wrote in Le Vite (XNUMX), the story of a local peasant who asked Ser Piero to have his talented son Leonardo paint a picture for him on a plate. His relationship with his paternal grandmother, Lucia di ser Piero di Zoso, possibly led him to discover the artistic world, since his grandmother was a potter.Ī popular prophecy refers to a bird known as a kite hovering over his cradle, brushing his face with its tail. After becoming a widower, Leonardo's father married several times, getting to do so up to four times, and from these marriages ten sons and two daughters were born from those marriages and they were legally recognized.įor the good of little Leonardo, he was well treated and above all he had a very good relationship with his father's last wife, who was called Lucrezia Guglielmo Cortigiani, their good affectionate relationship could be evidenced in a note where he addressed her with the following words “dear and sweet mother”. Although the boy Leonardo was recognized from his birth by the people around him as the son of his father, however, he was not recognized in his life as a legitimate son.
However, from that marriage union there were no offspring, so the young Albiera gave her mother's affection to little Leonardo, but a few years later in 1464, while still very young, she died of complications during childbirth. His father had already married his fiancée, a sixteen-year-old descendant of a wealthy Florence family, Albiera degli Amadori. When Leonardo turned five years old in 1457, his mother Caterina married Antonio di Piero Buti del Vacca da Vinci, a gentleman who was also a peasant from that city, from that marriage five children were born: While the future artist Leonardo lived in the house of his father's family in the village of Vinci. On the other hand, the name of the people of the town could be a combination that associated him with his place of birth, with the father, the trade he had, a nickname, the name of the teacher if his trade was craftsman, and other peculiarities. The norms of the time related to the names of the people varied according to the social conditions, only the people of the high society of Europe used the patronymic surname. His full name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, which means "Leonardo, son of the master Piero de Vinci", indicating the relationship and the city where he was born. He learned to read and write although his spelling had many errors, he learned arithmetic and a bit of Latin, despite being part of the tradition.
Although he received a good education, it did not reach the university level.
He was treated as a legitimate son, he was sponsored by five godmothers and five godfathers, all inhabitants of the town. Although he was his father's son out of wedlock, Lionardo, as it appears on his baptismal certificate, lived the first five years of his life in his father's house in Vinci.
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