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Five grotesque heads by Leonardo

The grotesque drawings by Leonardo da Vinci are sometimes know as literary facetiae. The drawings of Leonardo deserve an online monograph. The best effort to date is the one by Wikipedian Scriberius and is to be found here[1].

Scriberius notes that

The List of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci gives a broad selection yet incomplete overwiew of the drawings by Tuscan polymath (architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter) Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) who made several hundred drawings during the Italian Renaissance. He had drawn portraits, objects, human anatomy, diagrams, animals, movements, and his inventions/ideas (each fictional and/or real). Most of his work are sketches and studies, some were preparations for his paintings. Leonardos drawings are considered as the first modern medical illustrations, too. Some paintings depict his dissections of human bodies.
Far from being just a wild enthusiast making notes about everything possible, Leonardo is surprisingly specialized in his studies. Moreover, the basic themes which he chooses are guided by systematic principles. It is striking that only about 10% of Leonardo's extant notes are about the natural world. Nearly 90% of his notes are concerned with man-made worlds which can be divided into mental, represented and constructed worlds. Of these the mental world receives about 15% of his attention, the represented world approximately 20%, while the constructed world receives approximately 65% of his attention, if we judge on the basis of extant notes. Leonardo's study of nature focusses on three aspects: physical, biological and botanical. With respect to the physical world, he is guided by two interests: cosmology and physics.|Dr. Kim Henry Veltman, "Leonardo's Method". 5. Themes. (Originally a lecture at the Ateneo di Brescia, Italy, in April 1991, also published as a book in Italian), Maastricht McLuhan Institute, Netherlands. --Kim H. Veltman, Leonardo's Method. (Originally a lecture at the Ateneo di Brescia, Brescia, Italy, in April 1991). Retrieved 2010-06-22.
His drawings are scattered all over the world, both in private and public collections. There is no central or official system for his drawing œuvre. Drawing techniques he used include ink on paper, pencil on paper, and chalk on paper. Most drawings are collected in manuscripts (Codici). Among his work are two drawn portraits of an old man that is supposed to be himself. His earliest dated drawing is Landscape of the Arno Valley (1473); his last known drawing was ... (151?). The Vitruvian Man and The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist are his most famous drawings. Lost drawings of Leonardo are ...


See also: grotesque art.


Alcide Bonneau rédigea de nombreux articles pour le Grand dictionnaire de Pierre Larousse (littératures italienne et espagnole), ainsi que pour le Nouveau Larousse illustré.
De 1876 à 1893, il fut le principal collaborateur de l’éditeur Isidore Liseux (1835-1894), pour lequel il édita, traduisit et commenta une cinquantaine d’ouvrages érotiques ou simplement « curieux » : les Facéties de Poggio Bracciolini (1878); les Raggionamenti d’Arétin (1879-1880); les Dialogues de Luisa Sigea de Nicolas Chorier (1881); les Sonnets luxurieux d’Arétin (1882); les Apophoreta, ou De Figuris Veneris, de Forberg, sous le titre de Manuel d’érotologie classique (1882); la Cazzaria de Antonio Vignale (1882); les Poésies complètes de Giorgio Baffo (1884); la Raffaela de Piccolomini (1884); l’Hecatelegium de Pacifico Massimi (1885); la Mandragore, comédie de Machiavel (1887); La Gentille Andalouse de Francisco Delicado (1887); l’Hermaphrodite de Beccadelli (1892), etc.

Tous ces ouvrages sont accompagnés de savantes notices, parfois plus longues que l’ouvrage qu'elles présentent.

En 1887, il réunit un certain nombre de ces notices dans un recueil intitulé Curiosa, et il semble que ce soit de là qu’est venu le sens d' « ouvrage(s) érotique(s) » désormais attribué à ce mot.


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Biblioteca Telematica

CLASSICI DELLA LETTERATURA ITALIANA

Poggii Facetiae (1-120)

Di: Poggio Bracciolini


The Facetiae of Poggio, vol. 1 (Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879)


China Europe Business & Exhibition Center Six months ago it was made clear that the Chinese corporation Fanerdun Group Inc. will be investing millions in Kalmar, Sweden. The hub of this venture will be the construction of the Sweden China Commodity Wholesale Market, an international trade centre with an exhibition hall with premises for 1100 companies. The centre is expected to generate the interest of wholesale companies all over Europe who will be sending their representatives to Kalmar to view and purchase Chinese products. There will also be housing in connection with the trade centre as well as a hotel.



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