[Footnote:  Leonardo inserted this passage on the margin of the circular plan, in water colour, of Imola—­see Pl.  CXI No. 1.—­In the original the fields surrounding the town are light green; the moat, which surrounds the fortifications and the windings of the river Santerno, are light blue.  The parts, which have come out blackish close to the river are yellow ochre in the original.  The dark groups of houses inside the town are red.  At the four points of the compass drawn in the middle of the town Leonardo has written (from right to left):  Mezzodi (South) at the top; to the left Scirocho (South east), levante (East), Greco (North East), Septantrione (North), Maesstro (North West), ponente (West) Libecco (South West).  The arch in which the plan is drawn is, in the original, 42 centimetres across.

At the beginning of October 1502 Cesare Borgia was shut up in Imola by a sudden revolt of the Condottieri, and it was some weeks before he could release himself from this state of siege (see Gregorovius, Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter, Vol.  VII, Book XIII, 5, 5).

Besides this incident Imola plays no important part in the history of the time.  I therefore think myself fully justified in connecting this map, which is at Windsor, with the siege of 1502 and with Leonardo’s engagements in the service of Cesare Borgia, because a comparison of these texts, Nos. 1050 and 1051, raise, I believe, the hypothesis to a certainty.]

1052.

>From Bonconventi to Casa Nova are 10 miles, from Casa Nova to Chiusi 9 miles, from Chiusi to Perugia, from, Perugia to Santa Maria degli Angeli, and then to Fuligno. [Footnote:  Most of the places here described lie within the district shown in the maps on Pl.  CXIII.]

1053.

On the first of August 1502, the library at Pesaro.

1054.

OF PAINTING.

On the tops and sides of hills foreshorten the shape of the ground and its divisions, but give its proper shape to what is turned towards you. [Footnote:  This passage evidently refers to the making of maps, such as Pl.  CXII, CXIII, and CXIV.  There is no mention of such works, it is true, excepting in this one passage of MS. L. But this can scarcely be taken as evidence against my view that Leonardo busied himself very extensively at that time in the construction of maps; and all the less since the foregoing chapters clearly prove that at a time so full of events Leonardo would only now and then commit his observations to paper, in the MS. L.

By the side of this text we find, in the original, a very indistinct sketch, perhaps a plan of a position.  Instead of this drawing I have here inserted a much clearer sketch of a position from the same MS., L. 82b and 83a.  They are the only drawings of landscape, it may be noted, which occur at all in that MS.]

Alessandria in Piedmont (1055. 1056).