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The established convention is to use the given name "Leonardo", just as with Raphael, Michelangelo, and little Donato ("Donatello"). Dan Brown is also not an authority on the descriptive linguistics of 16th-century Italian.


The Dan Brown mention was about descriptive, showing it's popularly understood using a popular book, not prescriptive.




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