Leonardo : a restless genius
Forcellino, Antonio2018
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A visionary scientist, a supreme painter, a man of eccentricity and ambition: Leonardo da Vinci had many lives. The child of 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 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 eventually the Papacy in Rome, where he could vie for renown with Michelangelo and Raphael. In this book, Forcellino draws on his expertise to give us a more detailed view of Leonardo than ever before.
Main title:
Leonardo : a restless genius / Antonio Forcellino ; translated by Lucinda Byatt.
Author:
Forcellino, Antonio, authorByatt, Lucinda, translator
Imprint:
Cambridge : Polity Press, 2018.
Collation:
344 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509518524 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
709.2LEO
Language:
EnglishItalian
BRN:
1883806
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