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”.
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
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:
Leonardo da Vinci: the childhood To understand why Leonardo neglected painting and devoted himself to scientific research it is necessary to understand this man deeply. He searched for the deepest meaning of life that is the meaning of life itself. Leonardo himself didn’t have a clear idea of what he was looking for. But what was Leonardo’s cultural background? Firstly,he defined himself an uncultured man (omo sanzalettere) and for this reason he was unable to master western philosophy and particularly Greek philosophy. For this reason it was impossible he knew that the Epicurians and above all Lucretius, many centuries before had denied the existence of every god.
Leonardo da Vinci Everybody knows that Leonardo was a very great painter and a genius of the Renaissance. However, his colleagues thought that some things about his behaviour were very strange, they didn’t understand him at all, and still today these obscure aspects make him enigmatic. Leonardo had achieved excellent results with his painting. He lived a good life, spent lots of money, wore elegant clothes, ate quality food and was very generous economically to his young apprentices. Then, at a certain point in his life Leonardo did a strange thing, he decided to neglect painting and devote himself, nearly exclusively, to scientific research. His painter colleagues couldn’t understand this choice – why give up something that gives you such a good life?
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