Leonardo : a restless genius / Antonio Forcellino ; translated by Lucinda Byatt.
Language: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Cambridge : Polity, 2018Description: vi, 351 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781509518524
- Leonardo. English
- 23 709.2
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"A visionary scientist, a supreme painter, a man of eccentricity and ambition: Leonardo da Vinci had many lives. Born from a fleeting affair between a country girl and a young notary, Leonardo was never legitimized by his father and received no formal education. While this freedom from the routine of rigid and codified learning may have served to stimulate his natural creativity, it also caused many years of suffering and an insatiable need to prove his own worth. It was a striving for glory and an obsessive thirst for knowledge that prompted Leonardo to seek the protection and favour of the most powerful figures of his day, from Lorenzo de’ Medici to Ludovico Sforza, from the French governors of Milan to the pope in Rome, where he could vie for renown with Michelangelo and Raphael." - Book cover
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