Leonardo da Vinci and the Arundel Code   We can findt hese intuitions and discoveries in one of Leonardo da Vinci’s codes. In Disputa pro e contra le leggi di natura (code Arundel;1478-1518)  he writes:  “Nature, being eager and taking pleasure in creating and making lives and forms over and over again, because it knows they are an increasing of its earthly matter, is willing and faster in creating than time in using up and so it ordered many animals should become food to one another and this not satisfying such a desire, it often gives off a kind of poisonous and pestiferous vapour and a continuous plague over the great reproducing and flocking together of animals, and above all over men who increase so much because other animals don’t make them their food and once causes are taken away, effects will fail”.

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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Philosophy Leonardo’s “La Gioconda” is world-famous. Even the innumerable machines of the Italian genius are well-known. There have been so many studies about Leonardo and yet, in my opinion Leonardo and his thoughts haven’t really ever been understood profoundly I am referring in particular to Leonardo’s refusal of metaphysics and religion. Such a strong refusal can only be foundin one other genius, that is in the Latin writer, Titus Lucretius Caro. In the first half of the first century B.C., with his poem “de rerum natura”, Lucretius lays the basis of the refusal of every transcendence.  The curious thing is that he begins his book praising Venus the godessof“voluptas“, that is of pleasure

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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Sexuality   Also Leonardo’s sexual orientation was influenced by his childhood. According to Freud, but also in my opinion, Leonardo’s homosexuality is more an intellectual orientation than a physical one and a kind of frigidity. We can sense this from the way Leonardo designs some anatomic studies concerning sexual intercourse. Let’s read what Freud says about the man’s face in this design:

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