After Melzi's death in 1570, the collection passed to his son, the lawyer Orazio, who initially took little interest in the journals | Court records of 1476, when he was aged twenty-four, show that Leonardo and three other young men were charged with in an incident involving a well-known male prostitute |
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The daring display of figure composition, the landscape elements and personal drama also appear in the great unfinished masterpiece, the , a commission from the Monks of San Donato a Scopeto |
Some scholars, including art historian , have cited the drawing as the first landscape in art, although are known.
Having many more such works in his possession, Orazio gifted the volumes to Magenta | His earliest dated drawing is a Landscape of the Arno Valley, 1473, which shows the river, the mountains, Montelupo Castle and the farmlands beyond it in great detail |
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The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called "," or Leonardo's smoke | He documented that the humours were not contained in the heart or the liver, and that it was the heart that defined the circulatory system |