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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 (561 pp.)-An-tonina Vallentin-Viking...
...Leonardo da Vinci a failure? A good many of his contemporaries thought so, and Leonardo gloomily agreed with them. It remained for posterity to decide that he was perhaps the most prodigiously gifted man who ever lived, the archetype of the Renaissance...
...Last Supper was Leonardo da Vinci's, and the Spitfire was Reginald Joseph Mitchell's, circa 1900-1937. Subsequent tampering, even for a decade, by Joe Smith [TIME, Sept. 24] will never alter the identity of the designer of the fateful interceptor...
That old master of all trades, Leonardo da Vinci, had so many ideas he could never get around to putting them all into practice. His notebooks are filled with detailed drawings of unfinished projects that have always fascinated his latter-day admirers. In its Manhattan headquarters last week, the International Business Machines Corp. put on display a traveling exhibit of 66 models of Leonardo's inventions, built to the master's own specifications by an Italian engineer named Roberto A. Guatelli, who helped build an earlier exhibit in 1939 (TIME...