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,
1337
Notes about events observed abroad.
1338,
1339
Drafts of Letters to Lodovico il Moro.
1340,
1341,
1342,
1343,
1344,
1345
Draft of letter to be sent to Piacenza.
1346,
1347
Letter to the Cardinal Ippolito d’ Este.
1348
Draft of Letter to the Governor of Milan.
1349
Drafts of Letters to the Superintendent of Canals and to Fr. Melzi.
1350
Drafts of a letter to Giuliano de’ Medici.
1351,
1352
Draft of letter written at Rome.
1353
Miscellaneous Records.
1354,
1355
Miscellaneous drafts of letters and personal records.
1356,
1357,
1358,
1359,
1360,
1361,
1362,
1363,
1364,
1365,
1366,
1367
. . .