Leonardo da Vinci's Vineyard
Renaissance vineyard given to a painter by a duke, replanted from DNA-matched roots after five centuries.
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This guide to Leonardo da Vinci's Vineyard in Milan begins in 1498, while he is painting The Last Supper across the road and Duke Ludovico Sforza rewards him with a strip of land behind a wall. You'll follow the vines through the French invasion, an apprentice named Salai and a servant who appear in Leonardo's will, and the decades in which the plot kept changing hands. Best heard standing on Corso Magenta, with the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in view.
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