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That Leonardo was by this time a facile draughtsman is evidenced by his vigorous pen-and-ink sketch–now in a private collection in Paris–of Bernardo Bandini, who in the Pazzi Conspiracy of April 1478 stabbed Giuliano de’ Medici to death in the Cathedral at Florence during High Mass. The drawing is dated December 29, 1479, the date of Bandini’s public execution in Florence.
Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy on April 15th, 1452, the illegitimate son of a young notary.