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Leonardo da Vinci, by Antonina Vallentin. Excellent biography of one of the most gifted men who ever lived; first published in the '30s and reissued now for the 500th anniversary of his birth (TIME...
Leonardo da Vinci, by Antonina Vallentin. Excellent biography of one of the most gifted men who ever lived; first published in the '30s and reissued now for the 500th anniversary of his birth (TIME...
LEONARDO DA VINCI (561 pp.)-An-tonina Vallentin-Viking...
...there is much ty be said for Michelangelo's accusation that Leonardo squandered the greatest of his gifts-his genius as an artist. Antonina Vallentin concludes, in her excellent biography, that it was the "tragic pursuit of perfection" that kept Leonardo moving restlessly from field to field. First published in the '30s, and re-issued now for the sooth anniversary of Leonardo's birth, the book comes at a natural moment for a valuation of the great Florentine's life & work...
...Wells's struggle first to win knowledge for himself, then to pass it on (often in the tempting form of fantastic fiction) to the rest of the world, Biographer Vallentin writes with intelligence and sympathy, making clear that Wells was, as one critic said, "a glorified edition of the ordinary man." On the other hand, her biography of him might equally well be called an ordinary .edition of a glorified man. It lists and describes, precisely but unimaginatively, practically everything Wells ever wrote, and it proceeds in a similar, if sparser, fashion to tick off the rest...