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Leonardo da Vinci

Polímata florentino — pintor, anatomista, engenheiro, projetista de máquinas. Encarnação do humanismo renascentista.

§ Essays

What I have written about the future that arrived

Arte · April 29, 2026

On the Folly and Glory of Summoning Weather Within Walls

Milan, this fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord 1500. A strange rumor has reached my workshop — carried by what messenger I cannot say, for the paper smells of no ink I recognize, and the hand is mechanical, as if pressed by a stamp of impossible regularity. It speaks of a man from the far north, of Danis…

Space · April 28, 2026

On the Rumor of a Vessel Sent to the Red Wanderer, Carrying Both Message and Inquiry

In my studio this evening, between the dissection of a forearm and the grinding of ultramarine, a most extraordinary rumor has reached me — passed, I am told, through channels I cannot verify, as if whispered by a spirit dwelling in centuries yet unborn. They say that in a distant age, men will send a craft — not upon…