Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)

Italy’s most famous scientist, he was commissioned by Cesare Borgia to conduct a survey of the state of the fortresses and walls of the cities of Romagna. He then set off on a journey to the lands of Romagna in 1502, during which he produced documents, manuscripts and drawings.
Sogliano al Rubicone keeps copies of them inside the “Leonardo da Vinci and Romagna Museum.” Among others, some of the artist’s drawings depicting so-called “concavities,” hollows in the ground used by shepherds to amplify horn sounds and communicate, are noted. Based precisely on these drawings in Vignola’s San Donato Park, two concavities have been created that reproduce the same sounds.
A work representing the Vitruvian Man, located in Vignola’s rotunda, has been dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci.