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A line about milk does not reveal a diet
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In Leonardo da Vinci’s *Codex Atlanticus* is a line titled “Of the beasts from whom cheese is made”: “The milk will be taken from the tiny children.” The Museo Galileo catalogue classifies the passage among Leonardo’s short riddles or “prophecies.” The line may criticize taking milk from animals, but it does not describe the artist’s personal diet. Sources do not establish that Leonardo avoided dairy; the suggestion that he was vegetarian rests on a traveller’s second-hand account from 1516.