Milan. Dinner attended by Giacomo Andrea, court architect, and Leonardo da Vinci. The convivial discussion at the table centers on Vitruvius’s manuscripts. Andrea decides to draw on a piece of paper his idea of the Vitruvian Man, featuring a human figure with arms outstretched toward the corners of a square within a circle. Upon the arrival of the French in 1499, Andrea was captured by the invading troops, tortured, and virtually killed (quartered). His drawing of the Vitruvian Man, inspired by and therefore similar to Leonardo’s, was rediscovered only in 1980 in an archive in Ferrara.
