Leonardo da Vinci. The life

The life of Leonardo da Vinci, inventor of science fiction instruments and anatomist, expert in fortifications, canal builder and set designer, master of arms, court musician and inimitable painter. With an all-Russian narrative power, Dimitri Mereskovsky has intertwined the fate of the greatest genius of all time with the fifty years between the 15th and 16th centuries: a historical period that marks the end of the Middle Ages and Humanism and the development of Renaissance. The characters who give life to these pages - Savonarola Cesare Borgia Machiavelli Ludovico il Moro the splendid and mysterious Mona Lisa del Giocondo - with their intrigues, loves and battles exercise a strange power on the reader and involve him in an atmosphere of mystery, art, paganism and faith Christian.