The Lauri Manuscript (Gaetano Lauri collection, Pescara, paper 225 x 165 mm., 178 numbered pages. Cardboard binding) is one of the three apograph manuscripts known in the world of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting. Owned by the Lauri family of Pescara and until now unpublished, it was entrusted by the family toUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma so that it could be studied according to a multidisciplinary approach: clinical methodology, aesthetics, optics, chemistry, symbolic hermeneutics. The very first results of these studies will be presented during the event.

Programme

11:00 am Greetings and introduction

Michele Cicala (Coordinator of the Clinical Methodology Course – UCBM From Rome)

Vittoradolfo Tambone (Teacher of the Clinical Methodology Course – UCBM From Rome)

11:15 am Leonardo's Heritage. Leonardisms and Biology.

Alessandro Vezzosi (Director of the Ideal Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Vinci)

12:00 pm Human Anatomy in Leonardo da Vinci

Sergio Morini (Teacher of Normal Human Anatomy – UCBM From Rome)

12:20 Usefulness of Science according to Leonardo da Vinci

Giampaolo Ghilardi (FAST – UCBM From Rome)

12:40 Questions and speeches

01:00 pm Conclusions

Paolo Persichetti (Director of the Plastic Surgery Research Unit – UCBM From Rome)