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Tag: Carlo Vecce
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Leonardo da Vinci Was Jewish
Marc Weitzmann
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Tablet
· 4 Apr 2023
A new book by historian Carlo Vecce suggests that Leonardo da Vinci's mother, Caterina, was a Circassian Jew who was abducted as a teenager and sold as a sex slave multiple times before being freed in Florence at age 15.