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Gioconda Book
We know him as Renaissance genius: inventor scientist artist. Visionary painter of the Mona Lisa the smiling enigmatic Gioconda. They knew him as Leonardo from Vinci Leonardo the Florentine: heretic butcher lunatic. It is dawn in the barn. On a wooden plinth lies a terrifying creature part lizard part dog part cockerel pieced together from several slaughtered animals. Sitting in front of it a boy draws an image of a monster. His first thought: men need saving from each other. His second: men need saving from themselves. A solitary child Leonardo's only intimate is Lisa Gherardini the girl who spies on him in his workshop. Spurned by his tutor he is sent by his despairing father to Florence as an apprentice. Under the guiding hand of Verrocchio the master sculptor he … read more...
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