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Article: Leonardo da Vinci's maps back in Italy for show
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 20, 2003
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Leonardo da Vinci's maps back in Italy for show
ROME, June 20 (Xinhua) -- A series of maps displaying Renaissance
master Leonardo da Vinci's cartography talents are back on Italian
soil for exhibition for the first time in 500 years.
The five maps, completed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503, were
greeted by a police escort on arriving in Italian Pisa's airport
ahead of a new exhibition that opens in Arezzo Friday entitled
Leonardo, Genio E Cartografo (Leonardo, Genius and Cartographer).
The papers, which belong to the British royal family's collection
of 600 Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, are usually housed at the Royal
Library at Windsor.
They were among material Leonardo da ...