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32: Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci • Part 1: The Inner Life of Genius

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Vasari's Deathbed Conversion to Catholicism

Leonardo was not 75 at the time of his death, he was 67. Leonardo formed in his mind a doctrine so heretical that he depended no more on any religion, perhaps placing scientific knowledge higher than Christian faith. The motivation to remove it may have been to avoid potential controversy with the Catholic Church which held great influence in Italian society.

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