![]() ![]() (This letter, along with 124 other fascinating pieces of correspondence, can be found in the bestselling book, Letters of Note. A decade later, it was Sforza who commissioned him to paint The Last Supper. ![]() ![]() The effort paid off, and he was eventually employed. ![]() It is believed that the final document, pictured above and translated below, was penned not in Leonardo’s hand, but by a professional writer. Fully aware that Sforza was looking to employ military engineers, Leonardo drafted an application letter that put his seemingly endless engineering talents front and centre, by way of a 10-point list of his abilities interestingly, his artistic genius is merely hinted at towards the very end. In the early 1480s, many years before he painted the world-famous pieces for which he is now best known-the Mona Lisa being just one-Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci sought a job at the court of Ludovico Sforza, the then de facto ruler of Milan. ![]()
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