Word: battista
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...without hesitation about Leonardo. The first is that he was not a "Renaissance man." He did not typify his time. Many artists in the Renaissance worked, as Leonardo did, in a wide variety of media: drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture and so forth. None, however, not even the great Leon Battista Alberti, had Leonardo's astounding and insatiable curiosity about the makeup and governing laws of the physical world or spent so much time and energy speculating about them...
...first place to look would be among Rome's heavyweight Cardinals--conservative stalwarts like Germany's Joseph Ratzinger and savvy bureaucrats like Congregation of Bishops chief Giovanni Battista Re, who now have a chance to advance their own agendas without papal scrutiny. But many insiders say the real power behind the papal throne lies with a humble Polish clergyman they call Don Stanislaw...
Given the topic of Tuesday afternoon's TalkBack Live, Bobbie Battista should abandon hopes of becoming a psychic friend...