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Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo may have been found
- ComputerGuru 2y agoNo picture of the sketches.
- Jtsummers 2y agoThe article (since it's a web page) links to this: https://www.rct.uk/collection/912552/the-head-of-st-james-and-architectural-sketches https://www.rct.uk/collection/912552/the-head-of-st-james-an... Which is also the sketch included in the CNN page, here's a direct link: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2b18k97.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill/f_webp https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2b18k97.jpg...
- dhosek 2y agoI think OP was expecting something a bit different, but nope, this is it.
- kurthr 2y agoSo unsatisfying for "mysterious tunnels", that aren't really tunnels, are barely plural, if at all, and don't seem mysterious.
- teruakohatu 2y agoI had the same reaction when I saw this article on CNN a week ago. A little more exciting than "lost drain pipe discovered under Utah couples' home", but not by a whole lot! At least the title was descriptive and not "You won't believe what was discovered under Sforza Castle".
- grahamj 2y agoFrom the title I wasn't sure if they were even found
- xg15 2y agoThe tunnels they found are definitely plural though, only the connection to the sketches seems a bit tenuous. > It features a well-known underground passageway that runs along the perimeter of the castle’s moat and is accessible to tourists. But to the researchers’ surprise, their survey revealed a second secret tunnel that experts had only hypothesized about for years. The second tunnel runs parallel to the first one, about 1 meter (3 feet) beneath the surface. [...] The researchers also uncovered other tunnels [...] including one that heads in the direction of the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the resting place of the wife of Duke Ludovico Sforza.
- ahmedfromtunis 2y agoWouldn't "by da Vinci" be more appropriate in the title?
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- msephton 2y agoCowabunga!
- throw-qqqqq 2y agoThat’s Michelangelo! Leonardo says “Taste cold steel!” :D
- msephton 2y agoTIL — thanks!
- Archelaos 2y agoIn his time, names in Italy were often differently structured than today, and they varried a lot. For example Leonardo's full name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ("Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci"). For Michelangelo it was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. For Raphael it was Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. They all are known and commonly referred to by their baptismal name (often translated it. Raffaello => engl. Raphael, germ. Raffael). However, there are other Italians contemporary to them, were we use other parts of their name as a shorthand, sometimes altered somewhat to adjust to our modern forename-surname system. For example: Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi => Filippo Brunelleschi, or Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli => Niccolò Machiavelli. There are other special cases: Giovanni Pico dei conti della Mirandola e della Concordia is known as "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola" and can be reffered to as "Pico della Mirandola" or "Pico", but usally not as "della Mriandola". Galileo Galilei is also a special case, were both, "Galileo" and "Galilei", are acceptable (although I think "Galilei" is becoming more and more the standard). So there is no rule of thumb how to refer to famous Italians of the Renaissance. It differs from case to case. You simply have to follow the individual practices.
- kristopolous 2y agoso what impulse is there that the sketch has to correspond to reality?
- HelloNurse 2y agoTunnels following walls and moats are quite normal and not mysterious at all. They just tend to be abandoned and forgotten after a few centuries of peace, as urban castles become palaces and city walls become an encumbrance, even if they had not been designed as highly confidential secret passages in the first place as seems the case here.