It was born in the Mediterranean at an extraordinary time, during the Renaissance,” he said. “Here in Europe we know almost nothing about slavery in the Mediterranean. Vecce said the slave trade in Italy is rarely talked about, which may have led to the delay in this discovery. There had been some suggestion within academic circles that Caterina had in fact been a slave, but there had never been any documentary evidence to support this theory - until now. Leonardo was born out of wedlock, and both parents married other people after his birth, but he spent his childhood on his father’s estate, where he was educated and treated like a legitimate son. It had been thought that his mother was a local peasant named Caterina and his father a wealthy notary, according to official biographies of his life that were published at the 500-year-anniversary of his death in 2019. His full birth name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, which means “Leonardo, son of Piero, from Vinci.”
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Anchiano, a hamlet near the Tuscan town of Vinci, about 25 miles west of Florence.
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