Series · 2023
Como Lake — Lake Como in the Codex Atlanticus
Sixteen sentences by Leonardo about Lake Como and its valleys, from the Codex Atlanticus.
Locanda Leonardo, Calolziocorte
In the pages of the Codex Atlanticus Leonardo notes what he sees and hears around Lake Como: mountains, waters, animals, wines and taverns. The series collects sixteen of these sentences.
1. “There are good taverns mile after mile.”
2. “The Grigna is the highest mountain in these lands.”
3. “Fearsome bears live in these mountains.”
4. “Opposite Bellagio is the Fiumelatte.”
5. “The greatest bare rocks are the mountains of Mandello.”
6. “Here live water birds called cormorants.”
7. “In these lands anyone may sell bread and wine.”
8. “Firs, larches and pines grow in these mountains.”
9. “Lake Como… Life is good here.”
10. “Valtellina makes strong wines, and plenty of them.”
11. “Wine costs at most a penny a jug.”
12. “Here are barren and very high mountains.”
13. “Along the river Adda there are waterfalls.”
14. “Ermines are born in the mountains of Bormio.”
15. “The Fiumelatte falls into Lake Como from more than a hundred braccia.”
16. “Valtellina is the valley through which the river Adda flows.”
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Codex Atlanticus 
Codex Atlanticus
