Renaissance age master-of-all-trades Leonardo da Vinci at one point appeared intent on pursuing a career well outside of the arts, if a letter he wrote to Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan in 1482, while seeking employment, is anything to go by:
I will make covered chariots, safe and unattackable, which, entering among the enemy [...]
Catapults are me, the resume of Leonardo da Vinci
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 1 February, 2010 to the design and art subset
