Leonardo da Vinci's Vineyard

In the early twentieth century, the architect Luca Beltrami, author of the reconstruction of the Castello Sforzesco and an important scholar of Leonardo, obtained from the comparison between the documents the exact position of the vineyard in the garden of Casa degli Atellani, then just restored by the famous architect Piero Portaluppi. In 1920 Beltrami photographed the remains of the vineyard and published his research in a book, entitled "La Vigna di Leonardo". Just in time, before it was covered by the rubble of the bombing of 1943. Thanks to the will of the owners of Casa degli Atellani and the Piero Portaluppi Foundation, under the patronage of the President of the Republic and the Italian Government, In the twenty-first century, an unprecedented historical and scientific research was carried out by the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Milan in collaboration with the leading expert in the field, Professor Attilio Scienza. Archaeological excavations have allowed to find and bring to light the paths of the original rows and, from the analysis carried out on the samples found in the excavations, it was possible to reconstruct the complete genetic profile of the vine - Malvasia di Candia aromatica - and in 2015 replant it.