Da Vinci’s mother was an enslaved teenager trafficked to Italy, new documents suggest

Leonardo da Vinci’s mother was a teenager kidnapped and enslaved in the Caucasus and sent to Italy, a new analysis of nearly 600-year-old documents suggests.  The documents, discovered by an Italian historian, suggest that da Vinci’s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped and torn from her home in Circassia, by the Black Sea, before being shipped to […]

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