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Da Vinci's ghost, genius, obsession, and how Leonardo created the world in his own image, Toby Lester

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historybiography

Da Vinci's ghost

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Toby Lester

genius, obsession, and how Leonardo created the world in his own image

Toby Lester opens up a surprising window onto the artist and philosopher himself and the tumultuous intellectual and cultural transformations he bridged. With sparkling prose, Lester captures the brief but momentous time in the history of western thought when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance, art and science and philosophy converged as one, and all seemed to hold out the promise that a single human mind, if properly harnessed, could grasp the nature of everything

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