ITAL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ludovico Sforza
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Add it to anything you want to order and it"s polite, and italians will be understanding. We had a fun little discussion about italians, food, coffee, and dinner culture in italy. He"s an oddball; he has no formal education and is talented in many many things: painting, sculpture, drawing, engineering. No formal education- led to the demise of the last supper. Last supper began deteriorating after only a couple of years because he wasn"t schooled in the fresco technique. Leonardo from vinci - illegitimate child, couldn"t take his father"s last name, couldn"t follow in his father"s profession of a notary, lived with an uncle, they discovered he had artistic talent and was ambidextrous. He kept detailed notebooks and was skilled in botany, hydrology (a lot of the sciences). He thought there would be more opportunities for him in milan than in florence. He went for engineering opportunities to design military machines. Ludovico sforza- sforzas were the ruling family in milan.
