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How
comes Leonardo (continued)
(by C. Marchetti)
For the moment being I kept for
my friends the results of my numerous excavations that completely capsize
the luminous, glorious and sweetened image of Leonardo, with the only
exception of a paper on the skin illnesses in the Adoration of the Magi
at the Uffizi. The infinite rapes everybody knew but nobody coming to
rescue, brought an infinite rage in Leonardo against a world splendid
on the surface, as he depicts in his work, but rotten inside, as he depicts
again in the shades. But the viewer never dares to penetrate the armor
of beauty Leonardo puts at the first level and stops there, dazzled. In
the case of the Magi every detail shows rotten flesh and with my friend
Emiliano Panconesi, then Primario at the Dermatological clinic of the
Ospedale di Santa Maria Nova, right the one were Leonardo did a lot of
work and teaching, we wrote a paper
then published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology.
The top of the top, so that no art critic could feel the temptation to
reverse the diagnostic.
Apart from personal events and
generic fancies Leonardo uses the cryptos to express discoveries that
would have costed his head if published. Leonardo had an intense attraction
for optics. As Prof Angioleri has shown by putting together bits and pieces
of information astutely scattered between different notebooks, he did
construct microscopes, long views and telescopes of excellent characteristics.
What could he do with a 30 meters focal length parabolic mirror except
watching the stars? But there is no hint of celestial observations in
the writings of Leonardo. By pure chance in examining some macro photos
I had made at an Adoration I discovered in Vienna, I found first Jupiter
and its moons, precisely represented as seen from above the ecliptic,
to the beard of Galileo, and that the dark blue mantle of the Madonna
contains a very deep sky map with nebulae, Dust Clouds and all the
rest.
My plan now is to take my discovered
Leonardo pieces and write an essay for each of them. The results may be
officially accepted in 50 years, and I am a little short of time to wait
so long, so the short term decision is to post them in this site. Just
wait and see.
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comes Leonardo > page 3 of 3
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