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2.- In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.
a) Explain why Leonardo couldn’t attend the university.
b) Why is Leonardo considered a man ahead of his time? (Puntuación máxima: 2 puntos). PRUEBA SELECTIVIDAD MADRID CONVOCATORIA JUN 2012-2013 INGLES. Young da Vinci Leonardo was born near the Italian town of Vinci in 1452. He probably spent the first few years living with his mother, but moved to his father's house when she married. His father was stern and distant with him, but Leonardo was a favourite with his uncle, Francesco, who ran the family's farm. Piero da Vinci didn't know what to do about his son, Leonardo. He had reached the point in life when young men needed to prepare for a career. Piero himself was an important official - a notary, but because the boy was illegitimate, the association of magistrates and notaries would not accept him, nor would he be allowed to attend the university. The boy did show a definite talent for drawing, however. Perhaps he could be apprenticed to an artist… Some time between the age of fifteen and eighteen, Leonardo was apprenticed to the artist Andrea di Cione, called Verrocchio (which means “true eye”) in his studio in Florence. This is how young Leonardo da Vinci started on his career in art, a career in which he would create some of the most famous paintings in the world. Leonardo was more than just an artist, however. He was also interested in science, anatomy and architecture. His sketchbooks, filled with his ideas for inventions, stunned the world when they were found centuries after his death. He was a scientist before there was science, an inventor whose ideas surpassed the technology of his time, and a famous artist who produced the most valuable and recognized paintings in the world.

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2.- In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.

a) Explain why Leonardo couldn’t attend the university.

Despite being the son of an important men, a notary, he was illegitimate. This means at he was born to unmarried parents. At the time, the association of magistrates and notaries did not acknowledge him as a worthy man so he didn’t have the right to attend college.

b) Why is Leonardo considered a man ahead of his time? 

Leonard is considered an advanced man for his time because his interests in science and anatomy and the sketches he made about these topics were non-existing in the time he lived. Science wasn’t something that was discovered on the time he was alive.  


PRUEBA SELECTIVIDAD MADRID CONVOCATORIA JUN 2012-2013 INGLÉS