Leonardo da Vinci (Live)
You're Dead to Me
Leonardo's Childhood in Catherine
Leonardo is the illegitimate son of a notary, called Serpiero. His mother's a teenage peasant called Catarina and he gets brought up by his father's family. He was quite entrepreneurial about self-education, particularly when it came to the natural world. So once his father asked him if he would mind decorating a shield, and he decided he was going to do a Medusa-style monster on it. Dara: Would you let your kids bring in entire zoos worth of animals and just let them free? No, we have a tortoise which is currently in hibernation in the drinks fridge.
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