One cannot exaggerate the unpleasantness of Leonardo's anatomy studies. Cadavers are already pretty awful, even when
refrigerated and pickled in formaldehyde, but Renaissance Italy had no such niceties. Leonardo, in his fervor for knowledge,
held countless creepy vigils with the local corpses, and their annoying tendency to decay forced him to work as quickly as
possible. He described it as "living through the night hours in the company of quartered and flayed corpses fearful to behold,"
but as usual his curiosity pushed him ever onward.
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