I don’t have any problem believing it IS Da Vinci in there, I just wonder why would they think it wasn’t?
There are whole graveyards out there all over the place. Why would anyone think, ‘bet that guys not the guy down there’.
There must be a little something more about this.
Yeah, hence my excerpt, and the secondary link.
The fact that both his father acknowledged him, and his grandfather even entered the marriage and the mother’s name in the tax rolls, indicates it was probably a known, accepted, and probably somewhat long lasting relationship between his parents. Apparently he stayed with his mother while he was small and then came to live with his father’s family when he was old enough for formal education and later apprenticeship.