Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights of the Mind - A Biography

xiv, 622 pp. For five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci has stood alone as the quintessential Renaissance man - the incomparable artist, writer, thinker, and inventor who most powerfully transformed his world. In this dazzling new intimate biography, award-winning author Charles Nicholl creates a portrait of the artist for our time - a biography that brings Leonardo to life as a complex man living in a fascinating, dangerous, quickly changing world.