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1975, I met in Florence a professor, Carlo Pedretti, my former
professor of art history, and today a world-renowned scholar of
Leonardo da Vinci. Well, he asked me if I could find some
technological way to unfold a five-centuries-old mystery related
to a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, the "Battle of
Anghiari," which is supposed to be located in the Hall of the
500 in Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence. Well, in the mid-'70s,
there were not great opportunities for a bioengineer like me,
especially in Italy, and so I decided, with some researchers
from the United States and the University of Florence, to start
probing the murals decorated by Vasari on the long walls of the
Hall of the 500 searching for the lost Leonardo. Unfortunately,
at that time we did not know that that was not exactly where we
should be looking, because we had to go much deeper in, and so
the research came to a halt, and it was only taken up in 2000
thanks to the interest and t