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At his death, Leonardo left behind over 7,200 pages of notebooks — less than a quarter of what he likely produced. They contain the most extraordinary record of a genius at work in all of human history.
— Isaacson, Chapter 5 — Leonardo's Notebooks; codices dispersed across Europe
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Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519, at Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, France. He was sixty-seven years old. Francis I, the king of France, is said to have held him in his arms.
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Leonardo never married, had no known romantic relationships with women, and likely had a decades-long intimate relationship with his pupil Gian Giacomo Caprotti, known as Salaì.
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