673

Allegorical representations referring to the duke of Milan.

He was blacker than a hornet, his eyes were as red as a burning fire and he rode on a tall horse six spans across and more than 20 long with six giants tied up to his saddle-bow and one in his hand which he gnawed with his teeth. And behind him came boars with tusks sticking out of their mouths, perhaps ten spans.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
X: Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations.
. . .
On Madonna pictures.
663
Bernardo di Bandino’s Portrait.
664
Notes on the Last Supper.
665,
666,
667,
668
On the battle of Anghiari.
669
Allegorical representations referring to the duke of Milan.
670,
671,
672,
673
Allegorical representations.
674,
675,
676,
677,
678
Arrangement of a picture.
679
List of drawings.
680
Mottoes and Emblems.
681,
682,
683,
684,
685,
686,
687,
688,
689,
690,
691,
692,
693
. . .