*sigh*
And it would still be "da Vinci" despite what people say, because that's how he wrote it. Even if the name rules changed hundreds of years later those only affect the names from then on, they don't go backwards....
And it would still be "da Vinci" despite what people say, because that's how he wrote it. Even if the name rules changed hundreds of years later those only affect the names from then on, they don't go backwards....
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The naming convention 'of X' don't really fits when you traverse spacetime border. You rarely transliterate Leonardo of Vinci, because people would ask, which Vinci, what is Vinci, which Leonardo, etc. But when you say, Leonardo DaVinci, oh, that famous art guy!