Leonardo Da Vinci:
The Most Interesting Man in the Renaissance...
Until he invented three-point perspective, there were only two dimensions.
Eggs Florentine? His idea.
Painted the Mona Lisa from memory, with his eyes closed, and using his right hand (he was left-handed).
When he was in Rome, Romans did as him.
In his spare time, wrote plays under the pseudonym "Shakespeare".
Bred chickens that had lips.
If he visited the Vatican, the Pope gave him the bedroom and slept on the couch.
The Renaissance was named after his being a Renaissance man, not the other way around.
Had an unlimited line of credit with every merchant in Venice.
Was so far ahead of his time, his inventions were obsolete by the time the technology existed to build them.
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