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He was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci Italy, just outside Florence. His father was a Florentine notary and his mother was a peasant who might have been a slave from the middle east. Leonardo had no sir name, and “da Vinci” simply just meant “of Vinci.”
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He was educated by his father in their home, and was taught the usual education of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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When Leonardo was 15 he apprenticed Andrea del Verrocchio. With Verrocchio, Leonardo learns painting and sculpture primarily.