1347

Draft of letter to be sent to Piacenza.

There is one whom his Lordship invited from Florence to do this work and who is a worthy master, but with so very much business he will never finish it; and you may imagine that a difference there is to be seen between a beautiful object and an ugly one. Quote Pliny.

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

XXI: Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.

. . .

Drafts of Letters and Reports referring to Armenia.

1336,

Notes about events observed abroad.

1338,

Drafts of Letters to Lodovico il Moro.

1340,

1341,

1342,

1343,

1344,

Draft of letter to be sent to Piacenza.

1346,

Letter to the Cardinal Ippolito d’ Este.

Draft of Letter to the Governor of Milan.

Drafts of Letters to the Superintendent of Canals and to Fr. Melzi.

Drafts of a letter to Giuliano de’ Medici.

1351,

Draft of letter written at Rome.

Miscellaneous Records.

1354,

Miscellaneous drafts of letters and personal records.

1356,

1357,

1358,

1359,

1360,

1361,

1362,

1363,

1364,

1365,

1366,

. . .