Signora Da Vinci Essay Example For Students

Signora Da Vinci Essay Catering is the Signora dad Vinci. She is Leonardo mother. She is the daughter off well-educated man, Ernest, Vines apothecary. He had an alchemical laboratory, a medicinal garden and an apothecary shop where Catering normally helped. Caterings mom died when she was a baby. Catering was raised by her dad and by her aunt. At the age of eight, his dad decided she was ready to start her education. Ernest told Catering that eight was the greatest of numbers because it was the number of Infinity: It had no beginning and no end. He said: Eight is the number of endless possibility. (p. 8) That day Ernest took Catering to the third floor, a place where she was not allowed to go before. There she found two rooms. Catering explained what she felt when she entered into the rooms. (p. 9) When we entered I found myself in a bright, airy, but unadorned room. It was filled with tables, and the surface of every one of them was covered in books There were dozens of hand- copied books, one manuscript, for example, was one thousand years old. Her father to to have those books and manuscripts because he worked for the Florentine historian and scholar: Pogo Bracingly who also worked for Cosmic De Medici. Cosmic wanted his people to know the ancient Greek and Roman writers and documents that were destroyed with the great library in Alexandria (Egypt. Many of these were hidden from the Christian church fathers, who thought them heretical. Ernest told her daughter that What lied within the pages of those books were truths that they couldnt allow to be lost to the World. Truths that had to be learned by her. And Catering did learn.