I cannot help mentioning here one Character more, of a different kind indeed from these, yet such a one as may serve to shew the wonderful Force of Nature and of Application, and is the most singular Instance of an Universal Genius I have ever met with. The Person I mean is
Leonardo da Vinci
, an
Italian
Painter, descended from a noble Family in
Tuscany
, about the beginning of the sixteenth Century. In his Profession of History-Painting he was so great a Master, that some have affirmed he excelled all who went before him
. It is certain
, that he raised the Envy of
Michael Angelo