The right hand palsy of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519): new insights on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death

摘要

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born out of wedlock to a Florentine legal notary, Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, and a peasant, Caterina. He was an Italian Renaissance polymath artist and inventor whose talents included architec- ture, music, anatomy, engineering, sculpture, geom- etry and painting. Scholars have called him the archetype of ‘Renaissance man’ and a_ universal genius.