April 15, 1452 Ser Piero and Catarina (her first name is all that we know today) gave birth to arguably the most important man in history, Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was born in a farmhouse in Anchiano, which is 3 km away from Vinci. Leonardo's family had lived in this area since the 13th century. Ser Piero, Leonardo's father, was a 25-year-old lawyer when Leonardo was born. As the story goes, Ser Piero did not marry Leonardo's mother (…showed first 75 words of 1183 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1183 total…his body in 1517 and his health continually declined after this time. On April 23, 1519 Leonardo wrote his last will, and on May 2, 1519 Leonardo Di Vinci died. Vasari (a friend of Leonardo's) told the legend that King Francis I immediately came to Ambosie when he heard that Leonardo was near death. The painting from Cesare Mussini shows this last meeting, but it is only a legend, because King Francis was in St. Germain en Laye on May 1, 1519.