Leonardo da Vinci, Pathfinder of Science
As he left his native land for the last time, Leonardo looked back over his years--from the silver lute that had sent him to Milan, to the death of Giuliano, to the final rejection of Pope Leo X. Remembering how Lorenzo de' Medici had sent him to Ludovico so many years before, Leonardo thought to himself with great sadness, "The Medici created and destroyed me."                                        13                             _