Anonimo Fiorentino ("the anonymous Florentine") claims that Leonardo was living with the Medici and often worked in the garden of the Piazza San Marco, Florence

One anonymous writer (Anonimo Gaddiano or Anonimo Fiorentino ("the anonymous Florentine")) claims that in 1480, Leonardo was living with the Medici and often worked in the garden of the Piazza San Marco, Florence, where a Neoplatonic academy of artists, poets and philosophers organized by the Medici met.