The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 360 pages of information about The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 360 pages of information about The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1.

Toleration.

Intolerable.

No sooner is Virtue born than Envy comes into the world to attack it; and sooner will there be a body without a shadow than Virtue without Envy.

[Footnote:  The larger of the two drawings on PI.  LXI is explained by the first 21 lines of this passage.  L. 22 and 23, which are written above the space between the two drawings, do not seem to have any reference to either.  L. 24-27 are below the allegorical twin figure which they serve to explain.]

678.

When Pluto’s Paradise is opened, then there may be devils placed in twelve pots like openings into hell.  Here will be Death, the Furies, ashes, many naked children weeping; living fires made of various colours....

679.

  John the Baptist
  Saint Augustin
  Saint Peter
  Paul
  Elisabeth
  Saint Clara. 
  Bernardino
  Our Lady Louis
  Bonaventura
  Anthony of Padua. 
  Saint Francis. 
  Francis,
  Anthony, a lily and book;
  Bernardino with the [monogram of] Jesus,
  Louis with 3 fleur de lys on his breast and
              the crown at his feet,
  Bonaventura with Seraphim,
  Saint Clara with the tabernacle,
  Elisabeth with a Queen’s crown.

[Footnote:  679.  The text of the first six lines is written within a square space of the same size as the copy here given.  The names are written in the margin following the order in which they are here printed.  In lines 7—­12 the names of those saints are repeated of whom it seemed necessary to point out the emblems.]

List of drawings.

680.

A head, full face, of a young man with fine flowing hair, Many flowers drawn from nature, A head, full face, with curly hair, Certain figures of Saint Jerome, [6] The measurements of a figure, Drawings of furnaces.  A head of the Duke, [9] many designs for knots, 4 studies for the panel of Saint Angelo A small composition of Girolamo da Fegline, A head of Christ done with the pen, [13] 8 Saint Sebastians, Several compositions of Angels, A chalcedony, A head in profile with fine hair, Some pitchers seen in(?) perspective, Some machines for ships, Some machines for waterworks, A head, a portrait of Atalanta raising her face; The head of Geronimo da Fegline, The head of Gian Francisco Borso, Several throats of old women, Several heads of old men, Several nude figures, complete, Several arms, eyes, feet, and positions, A Madonna, finished, Another, nearly in profile, Head of Our Lady ascending into Heaven, A head of an old man with long chin, A head of a gypsy girl, A head with a hat on, A representation of the Passion, a cast, A head of a girl with her hair gathered in a knot, A head, with the brown hair dressed.

[Footnote:  680.  This has already been published by AMORETTI Memorie storiche cap.  XVI.  His reading varies somewhat from that here given, e. g. l. 5 and 6. Certi Sangirolami in su d’una figura; and instead of I. 13. Un San Bastiano.]

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