About the Book: Leonardo Da Vinci
' The #1 New York Times Bestseller `Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, hes
simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this
remarkable man Books of the Year - The Times `Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal
man to the fore. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural
scientist. Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate, vegan, in need of
patrons) rather than the near deity of legend. Isaacson is an assured guide to
Leonardos fallibility - so many projects started, so few completed - as well as
his extraordinary curiosity and his even