Word: leonardo
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Also on exhibition is a manuscript of Horace's Odes and Epodes, written in an Italian hand of the fifteenth century for Leonardo Bruni and given by him to the Grand Inquisitor Torquenada...
...moment. . . . Having examined them, we can guess by what starts and snatches of thought, by what strange suggestions from human events or the flow of sensation, and after what immense moments of lassitude, men are able to see the shadows of their future works . . . the secret--that of Leonardo and that of Bonaparte, like that which the highest intelligence once possessed--resides and can only reside in the relations which they find--which they are forced to find--between things of which we cannot grasp the law of continuity . . . Their supreme achievement, the one which the world admires, was only...
...operation of the mind Valery has examined in a way to which could be applied the motto of Leonardo, which he admires so much, "obstinate rigour." And with remarkable keenness he has applied what he has found to philosophical problems, to religious revelations, to the theory of poetry...
...Leonardo is one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in all history. His eager restlessness of spirit was typically Renaissance, but his mind belonged more to the twentieth century than...
There was apparently no sort of activity from the art of horseback riding in which Leonardo could not outshine his contemporaries. Few of his paintings have survived, for he did comparatively few. His own versatility injured his greatness, for if he had concentrated in painting, instead of expending his energies in every other conceivable direction as well, he would hold an even higher place in the world of art than he does...