Leonardo da Vinci (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Leonardo da Vinci (lay-oh-NAHR-doh dah VEEN-chee), the illegitimate but not unacknowledged son of Piero da Vinci, was born in 1452. Little is known of his childhood before his father took him to Florence to be the pupil of Andrea del Verrochio in 1469. Sigmund Freud seized upon one of the few autobiographical references in Leonardo’s notebooks—a dream he experienced as a child of a kite sticking its tail in his mouth—to hypothesize a possible childhood and furnish the foundation for a repressed homosexuality he was convinced had played an important role in Leonardo’s creative...
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