Leonardo the vegetarian … ?
http://mustsave.tumblr.com/post/28612667530/i-have-since-an-early-age-abjured-the-use-of
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they look upon the murder of man.
Leonardo da Vinci however never said these words. An author named Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (Russian, 1865-1941) wrote them for a work of historical fiction titled The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci. … Merezhkovsky didn’t even write the words for Leonardo, he put them in the (fictitious) diary of (real) apprentice Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (ca. 1466-1516) as a quote from Leonardo.
Shelley Esaak
http://arthistory.about.com/od/leonardo/a/Was-Leonardo-A-Vegetarian.htm
However, there is certainly secondary evidence that Leonardo Da Vinci was not a meat eater. Question is, what were his reasons? Q
