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Driven by my insatiable curiosity,

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I came to the entrance
of a large cave.

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And immediately I felt in me ...

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fear

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and desire.

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Fear of the darkness around me

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and desire to discover the wonders
they concealed.

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Narrator: You were born in Vinci, Tuscany,

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Saturday, April 15, 1452, at three in the morning.

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Son of ser Piero, notary,
nephew of ser Antonio.

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Your name is Leonardo.

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Here you are in the only place
where you can be truly free.

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The dark room of your thoughts,

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the temple of your obsessions,

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the companion of your solitude.

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A timeless place,

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where ideas take shape.

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LEONARDO: Ask Maestro Antonio
how bombards and bastions are planted

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in the days and in the night.

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NARRATOR:
Memories materialize ...

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LEONARDO: learns
root multiplication from maestro Luca.

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Ask for the size of the sun

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that
Maestro Giovanni Franzese promised me .

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NARRATOR: And your infinite desire
for knowledge comes alive.

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Because of course
men want to know.

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Narrator:
This is your mind.

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(LEONARDO'S PHRASES OVERLAP)

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NARRATOR:
The mind of a genius.

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The mind of Leonardo Da Vinci.

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LEONARDO: See only the eye,
window of the soul,

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embrace the beauty of the whole world?

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It is the eye that all human arts
advises and corrects.

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Which leads man to every place.

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What measures the
height and size of the stars.

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Of architecture,
perspective and divine painting,

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the eye is the one and only father.

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Because to understand it is enough to see well.

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Narrator:
What do you see?

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Where does your soul appear?

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What are you looking for, Leonardo?

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You have outlined your Arno valley
in an essential drawing,

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like a map of your emotions.

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There you learned the ability to observe,
to explore, to marvel.

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There, during your carefree childhood
in Vinci,

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on 5 August 1473,

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nature is still your close friend.

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(DROP OF WATER)

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LEONARDO: Human ingenuity will never find a
more beautiful invention than nature,

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because in his inventions
nothing is missing and nothing is superfluous.

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The rest, which is the whole,
is made by nature,

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greater teacher than you.

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The water you touch from the rivers
is the last of the one that went

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and the first of what comes.

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So the present time.

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NARRATOR:
Your childhood in the Tuscan hills

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ends when you are just over ten years old.

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Your father takes you with him to Florence,
but you will not be a notary like him.

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He entrusts you to the master
Andrea del Verrocchio.

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(CLICK CLOCK)

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(BRUSIO)

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VERROCCHIO: This leg is too big.
STUDENT: Yes, master.

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NARRATOR: You enter one
of the most important shops of the time.

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A real school
of promising talents,

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Pietro Perugino, Botticelli
and many others learn the trade there,

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under the guidance of the master Verrocchio.

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We have been working on this "Baptism of Christ"
for too long.

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Who made the hands of Our Lord?

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The Dove?

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This palm?

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Badly done, just badly done.

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Perugino, how would you picture the angel?

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You, Leonardo?

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Maestro Verrocchio,

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I would picture him as a living angel,

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with a face full of grace and sweetness,

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mixing light and shadow

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and with the different qualities
of all colors.

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Well. The decor?

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Dress light,

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that move with the winds.

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VERROCCHIO:
And the mountains behind?

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I'd make them blend
into the color of the horizon.

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Narrator: Your angel
was so graceful and bold in invention,

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that Verrocchio
never again wanted to touch colors,

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indignant that a child
knew more than he.

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Sad is that disciple
who does not surpass the teacher.

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(CLICK CLOCK)

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The painter is master of all things
that can be thought of by man.

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Because if he wants
to see beauties that will fall in love with him,

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it has the power to create them out of thin air.

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Painting is science,

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grandson of nature and relative of God.

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Yet I am not sure I have been able
to understand how to give to my figures

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motorcycle...

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and breath.

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Narrator: The movement, the breath,

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this you will seek all your life.

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Give the soul to painted figures.

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Here, in your "Annunciation",

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immortalize the moment in which the Virgin Mary
receives from the archangel Gabriel

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the news that will forever upset
his life.

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You just need that raised hand,
between fear and consent,

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to make the painting come alive.

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Flowers and plants
are like fireworks

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who celebrate the miracle
of the future birth of Jesus.

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The water that gushes from the great mountain
fertilizes the land that blooms.

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Everything is bathed in a twilight light,

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which gives sweetness to the features
and depth to the landscape.

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You have always been deeply fascinated
by the human body,

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the proportions, the anatomy,
its secret mechanisms ...

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With your own hands you dissected
over 30 corpses

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to understand how it is generated and where
the energy of life pulsates .

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Age is given by the state of the arteries.

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When I made the anatomy
of a two year old putto,

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I found everything contrary
to that of a man like this,

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who was a hundred years old,

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and he had arid,
dry, exhausted veins and arteries .

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(BEAT OF A HEART)

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The heart is the core
that generates the tree of veins.

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It is major strength muscle

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and very powerful over the other muscles.

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(KNOCKING AT THE DOOR)

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OFFICER: I notify you,
Officials, as a true thing

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that Jacopo Saltarelli, aged 17,
allows people who request it

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to please their miseries,
with the grave sin of sodomy.

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Among these people Leonardo
di Ser Piero da Vinci.

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Narrator:
The episode of your sodomy arrest,

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occurred after an anonymous complaint,

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it is a dark shadow
that stretches over your waist.

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You reject it,

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looking for the scientific reason
even for the mechanisms of desire.

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Everything for you must be rigorously investigated,
even the secrets of your sensuality.

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LEONARDO:
Sometimes the rod has intellect for itself

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and even if the will of man
wants to provoke him, he is obstinate,

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and does it by itself.

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Other times moving by itself,

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without license or thoughts of man.

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(FIATONE)

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Studying and drawing are
the only safe haven for me .

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Only to them will I have to dedicate myself.

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Only to them.

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(BEAT OF A HEART)
(CLICK CLOCK)

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Who does not know how to keep
his will in check,

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with the beasts he accompanies.

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Pleasure and Displeasure are drawn together

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since one is born from the other.

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With your backs turned,

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since they are opposed to each other.

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But united in the same body,

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since from the same source they arise.

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If the figures do not reveal
their mind with their limbs and acts,

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are twice dead,

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because painting itself is not alive.

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Hit yourself in the chest with the stone.

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(BLOW)

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Hit yourself.

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(BLOW)

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Narrator:
Too bad.

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Condemnation.

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LEONARDO:
Again.

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Narrator:
Penance. Mortification.

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Atonement.

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Perhaps in this never concluded table,

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in which St. Jerome penitent
inflicts pain on himself

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to purify yourself
and reach mystical ecstasy,

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you faced the shame of the complaint,
of the trial immediately,

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trying to sublimate the carnal passions
through painting,

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your consoler and teacher.

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Perhaps that face also speaks of yours.

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LEONARDO: Take a glass the
size of half a real sheet

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and stop it between your gaze
and what you wish to portray.

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NARRATOR: You have an obsessive need
to experiment, to discover,

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to find the hidden reason for things.

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Only in this way, you can finally paint.

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Stand
two thirds of your arm away from the glass

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and keep your head still.

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Close one eye

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and mark on the glass what appears to you.

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And finally polish it, the glass,

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dust it, place good paper on it
and finally paint it.

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Narrator: In your attempt
to unify all knowledge,

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you make no difference between the waves of water,
those of sound and those of light.

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Now you push yourself to represent

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even the powerful shockwave
of a shared emotion,

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which starts from the Virgin
and Child and spreads in concentric circles

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with a mystical strength,

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investing all the witnesses
of the supernatural event,

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the manifestation of the divine nature
of Christ.

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The "Adoration of the Magi"
is a majestic work of art

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which unfortunately remains unfinished.

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At 30 your life takes
a new and unexpected direction.

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Disappointed by Lorenzo the Magnificent,

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who sends you to Milan on a
diplomatic mission as a lyre player,

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offer your talents
to Ludovico Sforza known as "Il Moro",

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powerful lord of the Lombard city.

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You do it with what we can call
the first written resume in history.

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Although, excluding the too modest
reference to your pictorial arts,

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you have no concrete experience
of what you declare to your future patron.

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Signore mio illustrious

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without taking anything away from anyone,

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I will endeavor to reveal
to Your Excellency

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my secrets.

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I designed bombards that are
easy to transport

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and capable of terrifying
the most bitter enemy.

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(EXPLOSION)

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I will build giant crossbows
of extraordinary power

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and covered wagons, safe, unassailable.

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In the event of a battle on the sea,

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I know effective means
of defense and offense.

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They are also capable of creating
strong but very light bridges .

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I can also work on the
bronze horse in honor of your father.

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And in times of peace
I can also paint a little,

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no worse and no better than others.

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(CLICK CLOCK)

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So, son, leave for Milan.

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Yes, my father.

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I want to see
the natural beauty of the world.

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And do you think you will be at the service
of Ludovico il Moro

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will it allow you to do it?

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I cannot hope otherwise.

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Lorenzo the Magnificent thinks I'm
not ready for Rome and the Popes.

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Maybe because you are unreliable, slow.

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Maybe because you get lost in
endless studies that never bear fruit.

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My studies are slow,

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but only because I am not satisfied
with stopping at the surface of things.

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Who shortens the works

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it offends the dedication, intelligence
and love of those who create them.

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Narrator:
Ser Piero da Vinci.

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The notary who could not recognize
the fruit of a clandestine relationship.

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The man who thus denied you education

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that your deep desire
for knowledge deserved.

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The father you loved despite everything.

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You arrive in Milan
as a court entertainer.

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But you are determined to give life
to your ambitions.

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This is the opportunity you are waiting for
and you do not intend to waste it.

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Starting with the last of what you thought
were your talents.

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Painting is based on perspective

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and perspective is nothing other than knowing how to
figure well as the eye sees.

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But I got another perspective,

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which I call ...

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aerial.

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If in a painting you want to make
the distance between one subject and another more vivid ,

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you will also have to figure ...

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the density of the air.

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The air that takes the blue
from the moisture corpuscles,

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capable of capturing
the bright rays of the sun.

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This is why the mountains,
when they are far away, appear blue.

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NARRATOR: This is the intuition
you decide to experience

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in your first Milanese commission.

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Blend the individual parts of the painting

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through the sublime invention
of the aerial perspective.

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Immerse the "Virgin of the Rocks"
in a luxuriant nature,

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dominated by a shady cave
full of mystery,

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where Maria, the child and San Giovannino

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they become part
of the environment you created.

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A single organism
that breathes in unison,

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in time with the heartbeat of
the Earth.

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(CLICK CLOCK)

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Fortunately for you and on your merit, you
continue to enjoy

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of the favors and protection
of Ludovico il Moro.

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Leonardo.

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My Lord.

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I want my favorite

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have as a gift
the most beautiful portrait of a lady ever seen.

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Fear not, Your Excellency.

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My painting will try to figure
the virtue of such divine beauty.

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LEONARDO:
Take the mirror and make it your teacher.

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If you make us mirror the living thing inside,

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and compare that mirrored thing
with what you painted,

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you'll see if the two are alike.

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Never turn your head towards your chest.

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If you represent a beauty
made of right proportions,

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this beauty is not mortal

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and falls in love with you.

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CECILIA:
Time kills beauty

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and also love.

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LEONARDO: Not the eternal beauty
recreated by painting.

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Narrator:
Cultured, refined and beautiful,

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she is the favorite of Ludovico il Moro
at only 15 years old.

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Her name is Cecilia Gallerani.

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You have portrayed your lady
with an ermine in her lap,

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symbol of purity and chastity,

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catching her in
the instant of her mental motion, of surprise.

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Thus you fix forever
the emotion of a moment.

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Leon Battista Alberti.

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"De Re

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Ae...

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Building. "

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lncipit.

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Successfully law.

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A man without letters,

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that's who I am to them.

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But let them accuse me, it is the truth.

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Whoever hides behind the authority of
other people 's thoughts does not use his wits,

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but rather the memory.

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They are too ignorant to understand that
my studies are children of experience.

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Because I am a disciple of experience.

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And so, as a teacher, I choose her.

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The palm contains four.

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Therefore four fingers make a palm

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and four palms make a foot.

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The measures of man thus
from nature are distributed.

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1,61803398874989.

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The divine proportion.

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1,618...

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03398874989.

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The magic number!

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(REPEAT NUMBER)

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1,61803398874989.

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It is the magic number.

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NARRATOR: The divine proportion,
i.e. the golden section,

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the magic number used by the ancient Greeks
for the proportions of temples.

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You have to study until you wake up.

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Narrator: And that in nature it
is found in the curves of the waves,

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in the spirals of shells,
in the shape of galaxies ...

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Or before falling asleep,
in bed, in the dark.

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Think of the divine proportion.

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Get up, come on! Get up.

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NARRATOR: After studying
the work of Vitruvius,

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your intuition lies in
relating the golden ratio

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to the perfect proportions of the human body.

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LEONARDO: I want to understand
the universal measure of man

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which is made of earth, air, water, fire,

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and for this reason it resembles
the body of the earth.

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A lesser world.

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So much does man open his arms,

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how much is its height.

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From the root of the hair

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up to below the chin

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it is the tenth part of the height of a man.

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Stop!

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The space between the chin and the nose

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and between the roots of the hair and the eyebrows,

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it is similar to the ear

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and third part of the man's face.

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Boltraffio, come here.

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By.

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You are without proportion.

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Away, away, away!

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00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,199
Leave me alone.

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00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,039
The painter must be lonely.

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And if you are alone, you will be all yours.

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(Four fingers make a palm,
four palms make a foot.)

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(A lesser world.)

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(I mean
the universal measure of man.)

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(Earth, air, water, fire.)

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(The divine proportion.)

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(Between the root of the hair ...
Under the chin.)

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(The man opens his arms so much ...)

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(The divine proportion.)

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(I mean
the universal measure of man.)

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(Which is made of earth,
air, water, fire.)

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(The divine proportion.)

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Narrator:
You have won your impossible challenge,

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representing the symbolic union
between art and science.

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The portrait of a body
of superb beauty,

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inscribed within
two perfect forms,

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the circle and the square.

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A masterpiece, emblem of the Renaissance,
in which human and divine intertwine.

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In its harmony of forms, it
is the perfect image of man,

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which becomes the center of nature
and the universe.

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Fire,

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king of the elements,

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to punish the water above it, he
raises the flame and boils it.

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Water, to obey him,

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overflows.

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And drop down.

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00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,439
But drowns and puts out the fire ...

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his master.

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00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,599
Giacomo was still a
ten-year-old boy when he came to my shop.

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It was July 1490.

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As soon as the second day he was with us
I had him make two shirts,

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a jacket, and a pair of pink socks.

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I left the money, lire 4,

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00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:08,719
to pay for said things in the pouch
and he stole everything.

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00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,719
Although I was certain
of his guilt,

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he indignantly refused to confess.

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Thief,

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liar, gluttonous and obstinate.

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A scoundrel like the devil
in Pulci's "Morgante".

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I've decided, I'll call you Salaì.

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(DEGLUTES)
(COUGH)

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(RIDE)

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(SUSPIRES)

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LEONARDO:
Maybe ...

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Maybe there we are.

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00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,439
Fermo Salaì.

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00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,999
This ox eye
is not meant to be eaten,

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00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:09,279
but to make it anatomy.

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00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:14,079
See, so it gets hard and when we cut it it
doesn't pour out its mood.

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00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:48,159
Come.

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00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:50,759
Now watch.

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00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,359
Each image,

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even that of the smallest object,

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enters the eye upside down.

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00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:06,879
Then it is immediately overturned

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00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,679
and resumes the position
of the external object.

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00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,239
Do you understand, Salaì?

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00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,399
That's how an eye is made and that's how it works.

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00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:36,799
Now join the others, come on.

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00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,879
Go, I have work to finish.
Come on, Salaì.

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00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,079
NARRATOR:
Finally the time also comes

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00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,959
to keep the promise
made to Ludovico il Moro,

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00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,799
build the largest equestrian monument
that ever existed.

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00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,639
The colossal horse in bronze

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00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:20,999
with which Il Moro wants to celebrate the memory
of Francesco Sforza, his father.

407
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,279
The desires of the Moor
feed your ambition

408
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,959
and once again you dream of the impossible.

409
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,599
It is not enough for you to model the shapes
of a magnificent horse.

410
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,679
Your creature
must be ideal, perfect.

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00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,639
A steed
in the violent impetus of battle.

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00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:51,199
But how will
all that bronze mass stand on two legs ?

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00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,439
LEONARDO: The surge cannot be sustained,
then it will be in step.

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00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,359
But four times the size of natural,

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00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,999
twelve arms in height,

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00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,799
one hundred tons of bronze.

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00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,039
I am not afraid of the myth of the ancients.

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00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,559
(CLICK CLOCK)

419
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:56,919
It's been ten years, Leonardo.

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00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:02,279
Ten years that I,
your lord, have been waiting.

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00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,719
Where's the statue I paid you for?

422
00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:09,439
- Your Excellency, listen ...
- No.

423
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:12,159
I don't want to listen.

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00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:14,639
My patience is finished

425
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:16,639
and your time too.

426
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:19,639
My lord, please.
I have found the solution.

427
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:21,599
See with your own eyes.

428
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:23,359
(KISS THE BOOK)

429
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,679
This will be the armor
for casting the bronze head.

430
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,959
There is no more time
for the glory of the fathers, Leonardo.

431
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,519
Charles Vlll, king of France, is
already knocking on the doors of the castle.

432
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,599
The bronze of the horse
will be used for the cannons.

433
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,439
You had your chance.

434
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,159
And you wasted it.

435
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,559
Narrator: Your dream of competing
with the great architects of antiquity

436
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,119
crumbles into dust.

437
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,599
Are circumstances always
hindering you, Leonardo?

438
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,679
What's in the world or in yourself

439
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,479
that prevents you from finishing
the quests you face?

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00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,319
LEONARDO: To Your Lordship
I submit and ask for help.

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00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:29,639
I am very sorry to be in need.

442
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,359
But I kept six mouths for 36 months

443
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,759
and I only had 50 ducats.

444
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,879
I won't say
anything more about the horse , because I know the times.

445
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,399
My desire is always to obey
Your Excellency.

446
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,399
This time I will not disappoint you, my lord.

447
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,399
So you my word.

448
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,239
Narrator:
Keep your promise.

449
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:56,679
Remove the wooden panels that lined
the great Sala delle Asse of the castle

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00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,959
and you decide to make magic.

451
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,999
With the design of tree trunks
and mulberry trees

452
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,359
you create a perspective illusion
capable of breaking through the vault,

453
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,279
turning an interior into an exterior.

454
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,279
Grab the sky, make it yours.

455
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,799
Overcoming the limits imposed by nature,

456
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,719
dare more than any man
has done before you.

457
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,919
This is yet another obsession that
seduces you and from which you cannot get rid of.

458
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,719
With a considerable and repeated
effort of observation,

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00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,559
capture and then figure in the drawing for
a moment,

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00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:48,799
in the order of the thirtieth of a second.
Like the flapping of a dragonfly's wings.

461
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,159
LEONARDO:
Flying doesn't mean flapping your wings.

462
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,039
Once you know the flight,

463
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,239
you will walk the earth
looking at the sky.

464
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,439
Because you have been there

465
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,639
and there you will wish to return.

466
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:19,479
NARRATOR: Finally in 1494,
12 years after your arrival in Milan,

467
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,799
the time has come to show
your talent.

468
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,359
Ludovico il Moro
commissions you to paint a mural.

469
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,439
A large wall of 40 square meters,

470
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:32,679
the northern one of the refectory
of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie.

471
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,039
I want to make a work

472
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,679
for which I can show
those to come who I have been.

473
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,159
This work will be a long battle.

474
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,439
All my knowledge will come to my aid.

475
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,439
Narrator:
Fill out your study notebooks.

476
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,919
The preparatory drawings of the apostles
are beautiful,

477
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,959
in pen, ink, sanguine.

478
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,599
For more than three years
you will dedicate yourself to this work,

479
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,199
making it truer than truth,

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00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,359
the manifesto of modern art.

481
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,879
(CLICK CLOCK)

482
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,759
The prior of the convent says you work
just two hours a day.

483
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:24,679
And sometimes you don't even touch the brush.

484
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,359
Are you making fun of us, Leonardo?

485
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,799
The prior is telling the truth,
Your Excellency.

486
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,319
Because, before
I paint, I have to picture the image in my mind.

487
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,079
Only then
can I hold the brush.

488
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:41,679
Be that as it may,

489
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,239
I don't see anything.

490
00:49:48,240 --> 00:49:50,039
That's it, Your Excellency.

491
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:51,799
Only Judas is missing.

492
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,999
And if the prior still insists,
I'll use his face.

493
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,319
(SMILE)

494
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:02,399
All right.

495
00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:06,959
If you manage to complete the feat
and make it a masterpiece,

496
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,319
you will have as a gift a vineyard that I own
near the convent.

497
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,079
NARRATOR: You
keep searching the streets for faces and bodies

498
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,679
that give life and truth
to your characters.

499
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:24,839
LEONARDO:
It's more than a year

500
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,119
that every day, evening and morning,
I go to Borghetto,

501
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,679
where
all the vile and ignoble people live.

502
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,999
Only to find a suitable face
to make the image of my Judas.

503
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:42,279
NARRATOR: The infinitely ugly,
the eccentric, the monstrous,

504
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,559
they fascinate you
like a face of divine beauty.

505
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:49,319
(BRUSIO)

506
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,559
Here it is the face of your Judas,
you have found it.

507
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:06,999
A dinner with friends.

508
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,719
A reunited,
acquired, extended family,

509
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:14,599
like yours, Leonardo.

510
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,079
Where feelings go beyond
blood ties.

511
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:21,239
Twelve men.

512
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:23,279
And their Master.

513
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,599
Here they are, in the likeness of the apostles
of the "Last Supper",

514
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:33,199
the faces of those human beings
you had stopped in your notebooks.

515
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:49,879
LEONARDO:
You who drink,

516
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,839
leave the bag where it is and turn around.

517
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:09,799
No.

518
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:14,879
Don't look towards him,

519
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:16,519
but towards the center.

520
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:20,559
So.

521
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,519
Instead you turn your face to that other,

522
00:52:30,720 --> 00:52:32,879
surprised, astonished.

523
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:53,999
Put your hands on the table.

524
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:00,799
Look over.

525
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:12,599
Show palms open

526
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,039
and open your mouth in wonder.

527
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,439
Speak in his ear and you reach
out to hear him.

528
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:48,439
In truth,

529
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:50,959
in truth I tell you,

530
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:53,879
one of you will betray me.

531
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,279
Look at each other,
because you don't know who I'm talking about.

532
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,399
But who is it that betrays you?

533
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,279
Am I, Lord?

534
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,639
- Who's cheating on you?
- Is it me, Lord?

535
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:12,839
- Who's cheating on you?
- Is it me, Lord?

536
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:16,479
- Who's cheating on you?
- Is it me, Lord?

537
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,759
NARRATOR: The instant
after the betrayal is revealed.

538
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,439
There is an unbearable dismay,

539
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:46,239
a collective human turmoil
in expressions, gestures,

540
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,279
in the posture of the apostles, in front
of the words just pronounced by Jesus.

541
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,999
Instead of huddling around the Master,
his disciples turn away from him,

542
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,239
as if they fled before their time,

543
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,199
frightened by the words
of those they loved so much.

544
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,799
On the table, in an order that seems to
follow the harmony of the spirit,

545
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:11,079
there is bread and wine,
portents of Christ's sacrifice.

546
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,599
Jesus gives himself up to his imminent fate

547
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,279
opening his arms to God
and to all men.

548
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,879
He welcomes everyone, even Judas,

549
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,359
who holds
the price of his curse in his hands .

550
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:30,959
He is agitated, surrounded, alone,
by the darkness of sin.

551
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,399
Behind him,
Pietro brandishes the knife,

552
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:38,079
ready to avenge his Master.

553
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:44,319
You, only you Leonardo, were able
to represent human feelings

554
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,759
as a representation of the divine mystery.

555
00:55:49,240 --> 00:55:51,879
Even today,
despite your "Last Supper"

556
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:55,959
has lost the vibrant colors
that you had chosen with care and science,

557
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:57,999
we arrive in front of this wall

558
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,399
and we are moved
by the grace and mystery it emanates.

559
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:07,759
Because your apostles are alive, they
are human, it is us.

560
00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:27,799
After the fall of Ludovico il Moro,
Milan ends up in the hands of the French.

561
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:31,719
Lost your patron,

562
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:36,079
and after having found shelter
in Mantua and Venice, you take refuge in Florence.

563
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:44,799
Here you continue to perfect your works
with infinite devotion.

564
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:46,559
It is impossible for you to conclude them.

565
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:50,719
Where others see perfection,

566
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,039
you still persist in looking for it.

567
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:12,839
Receive a new commission,
"Saint Anne, the Virgin and Child".

568
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:27,119
In this monumental
and deeply intimate work,

569
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,959
full of emotion, it
is impossible to look away

570
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,599
from the sweet smile that the Virgin
gives to her child.

571
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:39,799
An image of joy and harmony,
like a childhood memory.

572
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:06,399
Caterina Buti del Vacca, your mother,
Ser Piero's servant,

573
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:09,319
after giving birth to you
out of wedlock,

574
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,679
he left you to your father's family.

575
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:17,359
Only in this way could he guarantee you the means
to be nourished, cared for, raised.

576
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:22,199
Giving up on you, his son,
to give you a future.

577
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:23,959
A pure gesture of love.

578
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,559
LEONARDO: The child in the womb,
if he breathed, would drown.

579
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:41,639
(BEAT OF A HEART)

580
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:44,479
And the breath is not needed,

581
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,159
because he is quickened by
his mother's life and food.

582
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,079
Expenses for the death of Catherine.

583
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:13,839
Narrator: The only page in your notes
where you remember your mother.

584
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,879
A cold, impersonal list,

585
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,839
the list of expenses
incurred for his burial.

586
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,079
Cross bearing and posture, four shields.

587
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,479
For the bearing of the dead, eight shields

588
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,159
For four priests and four clerics,
20 scudi.

589
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,759
NARRATOR:
You, capable of immortalizing in painting

590
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:48,799
the subtlest disturbance of a soul, do you
face your emotions like this?

591
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,039
Are you scared of being human?

592
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:56,159
What are you defending from?

593
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,159
For the burials, 16 scudi.

594
00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:03,359
(NOISE OF SWORDS COLLECTING)

595
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,679
LEONARDO:
You will make dead men covered with dust.

596
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:16,799
Others who, dying,
grit their teeth and roll their eyes.

597
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,039
(NITRITE OF A HORSE)

598
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,639
You will make the dust
that mixes with the blood

599
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,319
and turns into red mud.

600
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,319
NARRATOR:
In 1502, you spend a few months

601
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:40,079
at the service of one of
the cruelest tyrants in history, Cesare Borgia.

602
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:43,799
La names of the Architect of
the General lngegnero TI lusinga;

603
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:48,039
it deludes you that you can finally carry out
the plans for your war machines.

604
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,679
But the experience is excruciating.

605
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,359
I also found a trick
to survive underwater,

606
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:58,879
but I don't want to write it

607
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,399
and make him an instrument
for the evil nature of men,

608
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:08,239
who would use it to attack ships

609
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:13,919
and drown them at the bottom of the sea
with all the men in it.

610
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:22,399
NARRATOR: Youthful fantasies become
terrible realities of death and pain.

611
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,039
You can't stand it. You have to escape.

612
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,239
Save me from discord,

613
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:34,439
war is bestial madness.

614
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,959
NARRATOR: When in Florence
the Gonfaloniere Pier Soderini

615
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,639
asks you to paint
the "Battle of Anghiari"

616
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:48,439
in the Grand Council hall
in Palazzo Vecchio,

617
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:52,199
bring as a dowry everything you have seen
and that has upset you.

618
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:59,159
Maybe, just by picturing the horror
you witnessed,

619
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:00,799
you will be able to get rid of it.

620
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,439
LEONARDO: For the work at the Palazzo
I chose an ancient technique,

621
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:18,399
pitch and pigment
mixed with linseed oil.

622
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:27,039
The heat of the embers
was to fix the painting forever.

623
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:31,599
But below

624
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:37,199
the fire dried the color,
while above, for the great distance,

625
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:40,239
the heat did not come

626
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:42,999
and the paint began to flow.

627
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,559
NARRATOR: The "Battle of Anghiari"
melts before your eyes

628
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:10,999
consigning
his desperate fighters to oblivion

629
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:14,679
and getting lost forever.

630
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:28,199
LEONARDO:
On the 9th of July 1504,

631
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,519
Wednesday at 7,
Ser Piero da Vinci died,

632
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:34,279
80 years of age,

633
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:37,999
notary of Palazzo del Podestà,

634
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:40,239
my father.

635
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,079
Narrator:
Ser Piero da Vinci, your father.

636
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:49,159
That same father who even before
dying recognizes you as his son,

637
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,199
that same father
who leaves you nothing,

638
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:56,319
if not the shadow,
increasingly faded, of his memory.

639
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:15,759
(CLICK CLOCK)

640
01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:19,999
Yet, even though
you may not have known it at the time ,

641
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,239
you have to thank your father for one thing,

642
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,919
a fundamental meeting,
for what will happen next.

643
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:29,639
Master Leonardo,

644
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:34,279
but who was the sir
who came to visit you?

645
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:43,439
Salaì, it is
Messer Francesco del Giocondo

646
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,119
and my father,
his notary , sent him to me .

647
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:51,639
Mona Lisa Gherardini, his third wife,
has just given him a son.

648
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:56,279
And he wants to pay tribute to her
with a portrait I made.

649
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,799
And did you already ask him for a few florins
for the advance?

650
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:03,759
I'm not a money painter, Salaì!

651
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:07,039
SALAÌ: Then it will mean
that we will eat paint.

652
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:14,959
Narrator:
It was February 17, 1497.

653
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,039
The story of the most famous painting in the world
begins here.

654
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,599
But who does that face really belong to?

655
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:23,199
Who has haunted you
for more than ten years,

656
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:27,599
to the point of transforming the portrait
of a woman into an ideal image,

657
01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:28,999
out of time?

658
01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:59,119
LEONARDO:
I will never go back to Florence.

659
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:02,519
Now the French are the
masters of Milan.

660
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:10,039
NARRATOR: Yes, Leonardo, by
now you have nothing to hold you back.

661
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:14,359
King Louis Xll of France
demands your services in Milan.

662
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,919
Bring rebirth
to the most important courts of Europe,

663
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,519
together with your immense
wealth of studies

664
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,079
and the works you don't want to part with.

665
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:27,919
(CLICK CLOCK)

666
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:34,919
Master Leonardo.

667
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:37,639
(THE WORK CLEARS)

668
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:39,919
Master Leonardo ...

669
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:46,599
my name is Francesco Melzi.
My father, Girolamo Melzi, sent me.

670
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:49,759
He hopes to please you.

671
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:53,679
LEONARDO:
Who are you?

672
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:57,279
Francesco Melzi, my father sent me,

673
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:02,119
Girolamo Melzi.
He hopes to please you.

674
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,799
And I will be her pupil,

675
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:10,439
secretary

676
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:13,079
and scribe.

677
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:18,319
To serve you, Maestro Leonardo.

678
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:27,039
Your father
makes me a very welcome gift, son.

679
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:30,999
Light, darkness,

680
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:33,279
color, body.

681
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:35,999
Come on write.

682
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,839
Figure, site,

683
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:43,039
removal,

684
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:45,279
propinquity,

685
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:49,759
motion and quiet.

686
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:53,639
There will be ten of my books
that will talk about painting.

687
01:07:56,400 --> 01:08:00,039
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

688
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:03,999
All clear?

689
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,359
Yes, Maestro Leonardo.

690
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:08,799
LEONARDO:
Well.

691
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:17,839
Let's start.

692
01:08:18,440 --> 01:08:20,119
I have many papers to rearrange,

693
01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:23,639
daughters of a lifetime.

694
01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:57,359
Maestro,

695
01:08:58,760 --> 01:08:59,759
watch.

696
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:05,559
It is all the work of your ingenuity.

697
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:08,559
Seven happy?

698
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:17,919
Narrator:
In those cards there is everything,

699
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:21,519
a life entirely devoted
to the knowledge of all things.

700
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:25,319
But they also talk about you.

701
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:29,599
Because you, Leonardo, are
not just a scientist and an artist.

702
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:31,399
You are also a man.

703
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:38,439
(CLICK CLOCK)

704
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,759
Salaì, the soft hand, higher up.

705
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:50,639
To indicate.

706
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:53,319
So, immobile.

707
01:09:59,440 --> 01:10:00,439
ROOM: Master,

708
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:02,679
how much longer?

709
01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:08,599
Your tongue will be prevented from thirst
and your body from hunger and sleep

710
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:10,399
before you, with words,

711
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:14,039
show what the painter
shows you in an instant.

712
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:18,039
Patience, Salaì.

713
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:19,639
Patience.

714
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:28,599
Narrator:
Salaì, Salaì.

715
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:33,279
This street boy with a
sassy beauty has captured your heart.

716
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:36,399
Continuous thefts, lies, betrayals ...

717
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:42,439
every time it makes you angry and hurt
but then, invariably, it makes you forgive.

718
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,479
Salaì's face
returns in many of your works.

719
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:50,879
But in the "San Giovanni",
you managed to steal his soul.

720
01:10:55,840 --> 01:11:00,159
A beautiful and mysterious creature,
androgynous and ambiguous.

721
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:03,839
A saint, and an evil angel
at the same time.

722
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:10,239
And in his gesture,
in his pointing to the sky,

723
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:11,799
maybe you have put your hope

724
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:16,159
in a place where happiness is not just
a dream destined to break.

725
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:29,999
At 65, put aside the ambition to
be able to insert yourself in papal Rome,

726
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:33,359
where the absolute protagonists
are Michelangelo and Raphael,

727
01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:37,119
you still have the desire to change,
to learn and know.

728
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:38,999
The court of France awaits you,

729
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:42,439
where King Francis I
has requested your services,

730
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:45,399
offering you a home
near his castle.

731
01:11:45,480 --> 01:11:50,239
(CLICK CLOCK)

732
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:01,239
SALAÌ: The Kingdom of France is
not for me, Leonardo.

733
01:12:02,480 --> 01:12:04,279
I'll be much better in Milan.

734
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:15,319
Stay here, Salaì.

735
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:20,919
You will get used to this land,
you just have to be patient.

736
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:27,119
The King of France
himself appointed me first painter,

737
01:12:27,440 --> 01:12:30,039
engineer and architect.

738
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:40,919
I can't give up on all of this.

739
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:51,639
Farewell, master.

740
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:04,519
Feelings belong to the earth.

741
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:08,199
Reason, when contemplating,
is beyond feelings

742
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:23,719
NARRATOR:
Salaì has abandoned you.

743
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:27,039
But you know how to live
in the company of an absence.

744
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:31,719
Nostalgia becomes a
living and immortal presence in your painting .

745
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:37,879
And here it is the mystery of the soul,

746
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:41,159
a subtle and very minute
vibration of light

747
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,319
around two shady curls.

748
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:48,199
Just a shy smile
on a woman's face,

749
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:50,719
so hard to provoke in reality,

750
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:53,519
so impossible
to represent in painting.

751
01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:57,319
Serene and melancholy,

752
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:02,119
near and far,
mother and perfect stranger.

753
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:06,239
The Mona Lisa remains an
elusive creature , a mirage of desire.

754
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:12,319
This woman, with the look that follows us
from whatever side you look at,

755
01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:14,159
seems to make fun of us,

756
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:18,199
unperturbed
with respect to our desire to understand it,

757
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:22,439
as the centuries pass,
the world and nature change.

758
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:27,439
Because, as you taught us,
Leonardo, painting makes it eternal.

759
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:35,239
Now you have everything
you ever wanted,

760
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:39,159
a patron who appreciates your talent,
an important salary,

761
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:42,159
time and freedom
for your studies and your paintings.

762
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:49,359
You have finally found your home.

763
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:54,239
But you can't turn off the thoughts
that tangle with each other,

764
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,239
like whirlpools of storm.

765
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:01,759
Why can't you find peace?

766
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:08,119
What fears do your storms tell?

767
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:12,839
LEONARDO:
Darkness ...

768
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,719
wind, sea luck,

769
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:20,159
deluge of water,

770
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:23,199
fiery woods,

771
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:27,079
rain...

772
01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:29,679
(THUNDER)

773
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:32,159
Lightning bolts from the sky, earthquakes,

774
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:34,319
ruin of mountains,

775
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:35,999
city ​​clearing.

776
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:41,999
NARRATOR:
Even nature becomes hostile to you.

777
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:46,199
You depict it as terrible, destructive,
impossible to govern.

778
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,399
The more you know, the more you would like to know.

779
01:15:51,440 --> 01:15:55,159
But it is not possible,
for a simple man, even if great,

780
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:57,559
decipher the design of the world.

781
01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:00,599
LEONARDO:
What I know is a lot,

782
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:05,919
but what I don't know is too much.

783
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:08,319
(TUONl)

784
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:27,759
Age advances

785
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:31,479
and the time that remains,

786
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:34,119
little bit.

787
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,999
When I believe learning to live,

788
01:16:46,480 --> 01:16:48,119
I will learn to die.

789
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:56,119
Like a day well spent

790
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,519
gives happy sleep,

791
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,399
so a life well spent

792
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:09,919
gives happy to die.

793
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:12,919
Etc.

794
01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,519
Why the soup gets cold.

795
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:21,079
(TUONl)
(CLASSICAL MUSIC)