Biographical Leonardo
Andrew Kirk
Biographical Collection
It is well known that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath and one of the greatest creative minds of the Renaissance, as well as the creator of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. What you may not know is that Bill Gates bought his original notebook, the Codex Leicester, for $30 million; that he was ambidextrous, paranoid and dyslexic, and was able to write forward with one hand while simultaneously writing backwards with the other; or that he invented an armored car, a flying boat and contact lenses. Leonardo Biography presents an ingenious guide to his life and work, through a series of striking facts and figures transformed into attractive images that reveal the master behind the masterpieces.
