Puzzles:Was Leonardo Da Vinci really an Expert?

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Really Leonardo Da Vinci he was an expert in puzzles ?

That's right:among the thousand passions of the greatest genius of the Renaissance there were also puzzle games.

Leonardo enjoyed inventing riddles, charades, puzzles, games of various kinds and, above all, he was exceptional (also!) In solving puzzles.

This particularity helps to give the exact measure of the great versatility of his personality and the extraordinary multiplicity of his interests.

According to Alessandro Vezzosi, scholar and director of the Ideal Leonardo Da Vinci Museum in Vinci, the fact that the artist and scientist was, among other things, a pioneer of puzzles, "is a curious piece of the neuronal mosaic by Leonardo "( see also https://www.pilloledistoria.it/12068/storia-moderna/isabella-daragona-e-leonardo-da-vinci).

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