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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!
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....
Lingual shift happens, and naming shift happens, like Mac, O, De, Fitz, or in this case, Da.
Is it false to the Florentine naming convention, or perhaps Italian language? Probably, but those who thinks that Da Vinci is his surname probably doesn't realize the mistake anyway.
What counts as being "a surname" is actually something of a sticky topic, but if you say Leonardo had one it would in fact be "da Vinci". Surnames with prepositions are quite common and noncapitalisation of the preposition is universal; it's just that modern English has largely dropped them.
(The mediaeval period, especially, had them from Britain to Japan and most places in-between.)
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