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, the Author of the following Treatise, was the natural son of Pietro da Vinci, a notary of Vinci, in Tuscany, a village situated in the valley of Arno, a little below Florence, and was born in the year.

Having discovered, when a child, a strong inclination and talent for painting, of which he had given proofs by several little drawings and sketches; his father one day accidentally took up some of them, and was induced to shew them to his friend Andrea Verocchio, a painter of some reputation in Florence, who was also a Rh