1. Ille­git­i­mate son of an Ital­ian notary and a peas­ant girl.
2. A veg­e­tar­ian. He would pur­chase small birds at mar­ket and set them free.
3. Under secrecy, would enter the mor­tu­ary of churches to dis­sect and illus­trate human bodies.

Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci

If you must shorten his name– call him Leonardo. Refer­ring to him as Da Vinci sim­ply means “from te town of Vinci.”

You are prob­a­bly very famil­iar with Leonardo. His “face” is well-known..or is it? I was not aware that the above image has been under dis­pute as to it’s subject’s indentity.

I found the fol­low­ing video very inter­est­ing about the study and con­clu­sion of what Leonardo actu­ally looked like.