{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/1352.htm","path":"aor/dv/1352.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/1352.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nI was so greatly rejoiced, most Illustrious Lord, by the wished for recovery of your health, that my own ills have almost left me; and I say God be praised for it. But it vexes me greatly that I have not been able completely to satisfy your Excellency's wishes by reason of the wickedness of that German deceiver, for whom I left nothing undone by which I could hope to please him; and secondly I invited him to lodge and board with me, by which means I should see constantly the work he was doing,\nfor which purpose I would have a table fixed at the foot of one of these windows, where he could work with the file and finish the things made below; and so I should constantly see the work he might do, and it could be corrected with greater ease.","title":"Vol. II: XXI. Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes: 1352.","type":"page"}