The successful artist towhom he was apprenticed in Florence, Andrea del Verrocchio, ran a book-making workshop out of his house on Via Ghibellina, just off the street ofbookshops, where the cartolai clustered
Da Vinci apprenticed to Andrea del Verrocchio who sculpted for the Medici. Verrocchio also ran a book-making workshop out of his house and manufactured zibaldoni to order.