Mona Lisa painter Leonardo da Vinci was only half-Italian and his mother was a slave who was trafficked to Italy from the Caucasus region, new research has claimed
Monna was the wife of a"Florentine adventurer", who was the owner of slaves from the Black Sea region.
Mr Vecce said the document was written by the same man"who loved Caterina" when she was a slave and gave her a child and helped to set her free."I never gave much credit to the theory that she was a slave from abroad. "So, I spent months trying to prove that the Caterina in that notary act was not Leonardo's mother, but in the end all the documents I found went into that direction, and I surrendered to the evidence."He added:"At the time many slaves were named Caterina, but this was the only liberation act of a slave named Caterina Ser Piero wrote in all his long career.
"Moreover, the document is full of small mistakes and oversights, a sign that perhaps he was nervous when he drafted it, because getting someone else's slave pregnant was a crime." The Caucasus region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea includes parts of southern Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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