New evidence suggests Da Vinci's mother was a slave.

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New evidence suggests Da Vinci's mother was a slave.
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New analysis of historical documents suggests that Leonardo da Vinci's mother, Caterina, was a teenager kidnapped and enslaved in the Caucasus and sent to Italy. The documents, discovered by an Italian historian, suggest that da Vinci was only half-Italian. The findings have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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