1. Nations on Saturday April 15, 1452 "at the third hour of the night", ie, three hours after the Hail Mary: a ten-media.6 Not sure if his
birth took place in the castle of Vinci, about 25 km in a straight line from Florence, or in her mother's house Anchiano, a hamlet about
two miles Vinci.Nota 5 Leonardo was the illegitimate son: his father knocked up a humble peasant family girl called Caterina.7 8 His
father, Messer Piero di Antonio Fruosino was notary, chancellor and ambassador of the Republic of Florence. Leonardo himself was,
therefore, scion of a wealthy family of Italian nobles. Her mother says it could be a slave of East Medio.9
Leonardo, or Lionardo by Christian name, 6 was baptized and spent his first five years in the house of his father in Vinci, 6 where he
was treated like a son legítimo.10 had five bridesmaids and five groomsmen, all villagers 6 Here, Leonardo was taught, learned to
read and write, and acquired knowledge of arithmetic. However, virtually no learned Latin, traditional teaching base. The fact that I
had a chaotic spelling shows that his instruction was not without gaps and in any case was not that of a university.