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Leonardo Da Vinci - Biography InformationThere were factors in addition to his artistic temperament in Leonardo Da Vinci's biography that made him feel like an outsider. One of them was that he was born as an illegitimate child. His father was a notary and his mother was a young woman from the village of Vinci, a small town north of Florence near where Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452. At the age of five he was taken into his father's house when his father's wife proved childless. However, he could not follow into the family profession, because the notary's guild would not accept illegitimate sons. Destiny has its way of working: Leonardo Da Vinci became, instead, a painter and was accepted into their guild as a master painter when he was twenty. Leonardo Da Vinci was dyslexic and also did not receive a formal education, both of which likely hampered his efforts to learn Latin, so needed at the time to be mix with the educated classes. However, his dyslexia may have served him in other ways, giving him a unique approach to perceiving the world. For facts about Leonardo Da Vinci, The Holy Grail, and The Last Supper, click here. For more facts about Leonardo Da Vinci, click here. Goethe's and Leonardo Da Vinci's symbolism, click here. 
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