{"id":162539,"date":"2009-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-long-story-of-the-atlantic-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.varesenews.it\/2009\/11\/the-long-story-of-the-atlantic-code\/162539\/","title":{"rendered":"The long story of the \u201cAtlantic Code\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" \/><br \/>\n<meta content=\"Word.Document\" name=\"ProgId\" \/><br \/>\n<meta content=\"Microsoft Word 11\" name=\"Generator\" \/><br \/>\n<meta content=\"Microsoft Word 11\" name=\"Originator\" \/>\n<link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\DOCUME~1\\PPeggy\\IMPOST~1\\Temp\\msohtml1\\01\\clip_filelist.xml\" rel=\"File-List\" \/><o:smarttagtype name=\"metricconverter\" namespaceuri=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"><\/o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:WordDocument>\n<w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n<w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n<w:HyphenationZone>14<\/w:HyphenationZone>\n<w:PunctuationKerning \/>\n<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas \/>\n<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n<w:Compatibility>\n<w:BreakWrappedTables \/>\n<w:SnapToGridInCell \/>\n<w:WrapTextWithPunct \/>\n<w:UseAsianBreakRules \/>\n<w:DontGrowAutofit \/>\n<\/w:Compatibility>\n<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n<\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n<\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object \nclassid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/object>\n\n\n<style>\nst1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:595.3pt 841.9pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 2.0cm 2.0cm 2.0cm;\n\tmso-header-margin:35.4pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:35.4pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n--><\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n{mso-style-name:\"Tabella normale\";\nmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\nmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\nmso-style-noshow:yes;\nmso-style-parent:\"\";\nmso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;\nmso-para-margin:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\nmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\nfont-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-ansi-language:#0400;\nmso-fareast-language:#0400;\nmso-bidi-language:#0400;}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">This year, 2009, sees the publication in instalments of the Atlantic Code, 1119 pages collected into 12 volumes, making up <strong>the largest collection of Leonardo Da Vinci&rsquo;s drawings and writings<\/strong>. Yesterday, at the Rotary Club &ldquo;La Malpensa&rdquo;, Don Alberto Rocca, son of member, Francesco, and academic at the venerable Ambrosian Library, where the precious work is kept, spoke about it. &ldquo;We are proceeding with the work of taking the support apart, and putting it back together, in a way that does not affect the original papers,&rdquo; he declared. The work entails removing the spine and dissolving the mercuric chloride-based glues that were applied in the period 1962 &ndash; 1972, when the Code was reassembled from the single volume, into the current 12 volumes by a process of cutting and pasting. &ldquo;The choice made at the time was by no means a brilliant one,&rdquo; commented Don Rocca, &ldquo;even though there has never been the technology to ensure perfect preservation over decades or centuries.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">The thick manuscript, which was pillaged by Napoleon in 1796, and returned in 1815<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">, is called the Atlantic Code because of its size (64.5 x <st1:metricconverter w:st=\"on\" productid=\"43.5 cm\">43.5 cm<\/st1:metricconverter>), that of atlases. &ldquo;So, <strong>it has nothing to do with the stories invented by Dan Brown in his book,<\/strong>&rdquo; the speaker stressed. But sketches and notes that Leonardo Da Vinci used to make about anything in the notebook that he always had with him, had been in danger of being lost a long time ago, when the artist&rsquo;s property and possessions, were left, after his death in 1519, to Francesco Melzi, and, in 1570, to his son, Orazio, who, without realising, saw them taken away by the family teacher, and who, after getting them back, gave them away as presents.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">It is only thanks to the efforts and the perseverance of Pompeo Leoni that they were later recovered, collected and organized into two binders: the first contained 640 drawings of human anatomy, the second contained more than a thousand sketches of the secret arts and machines. &ldquo;Just as Leonardo was an attentive scholar, of human physiognomy, one of the first, &rdquo; the priest explained, &ldquo;he was also a genius and an extraordinary inventor, who 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