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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Volume 1) by
Leonardo da Vinci
This 2-Volume collection published by Dover
wonderfully exhibits Leonardo's works with his sketches, designs
and ideas. If you ever wondered what Leonardo thought, then these
are the books to get. The book is set up with the text in two
columns; the left in the original Italian, and the right side in
the translated English. In those words are written of Leonardo's philosophical
ideas, lives of where he lived and his surroundings, his theories
on color, perspective, proportion, architecture, foliage,
physiology and so many other things that the Great One was curious
about. Throughout the book and amidst the text are Leonardo's
sketches, thumbnail sketches, workings of famous pieces such as
the Last Supper, some anatomical drawings - and in those pages you
can see Leonardo's handwriting which he tended to write backwards.
The value and reference is endless, especially for the artist.
This edition is reprinted from the 1833 version originally
entitled "Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci." This is
a 2-volume set, which is sold separately, but for the price, it is
so worth the money. Highly recommended! -- Anonymous Review
Also available:
 Leonardo
on the Human Body by
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci's anatomical drawings, due to
his extreme curiosity, became one of his most profound works to
date. Published by Dover from the original text 1952. The book is
set up in 2 columns and broken up into headers of different
anatomical structures; either of bones, muscles, ventricles of the
heart or brains... Within the text there are italicized words.
These are the words written on the drawing itself, in Leonardo's
usual backward writing style. Some of you might be curious, beyond
the drawings themselves to read what Leonardo thought at the time.
And from there is the authors commentary. For those interested in
anatomy, drawing, painting or anything in the art field, this book
is highly recommended, for it has limitless reference value. I
continually look at it for my drawings. One will also notice that
many of the "models" are of the same body or person.
This is because Leonardo asked a friend on his deathbed if he
could cut him up, dissect him and then draw him. The friend, of
course, consented to this, and so we have Leonardo's masterpiece.
Highly recommended! -- Anonymous Review
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From The Knitting Circle
Excerpt:
In 1476 Leonardo was twice anonymously denounced
to the Florentine authorities for alleged acts of sodomy, once
with a 17-year-old model or prostitute Jacapo Saltarelli. In 1432
Florence had become the first European city to set up a special
authority, called the Uffiziali di Notte (Officers of the Night),
to prosecute crimes of sodomy. Leonardo was held in confinement
for two months but was acquitted because of a lack of witnesses...
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From Sparknotes.com
Excerpt:
In 1476, just as Leonardo was becoming a master in his own
right, probably functioning as a partner to Verrocchio,
he was suddenly plagued by scandal. Along with three other young
men, he was anonymously accused of sodomy, which in Florence was a
criminal offense, even though in most cases the authorities looked
the other way and the general culture attached little social
stigma to homosexuality.
Leonardo was 24 years old at the time. The accusation specifically
charged him with a homosexual interaction with one Jacopo
Saltarelli, a notorious prostitute. The charges were brought in
April, and for a time Leonardo and the other defendants were under
the watchful eye of Florence's "Officers of the
Night"--a kind of renaissance vice squad...
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From GayGate.com
Excerpt:
The quintessential universal genius, Leonardo
was an artist of great originality and power, a versatile thinker,
and a far ranging innovator and scientist. He left over 8,000
pages of notebooks containing scientific projects, inventions,
architectural designs and sketches. It is through Sigmund Freud's
famous essay "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His
Childhood" (1910) that the Renaissance master has had most
influence on the modern gay psyche, for it was in this
essay--written at a time when he was analyzing his own feelings
about his former intimate friend Wilhelm Fliess--that Freud first
developed his theories about the "causes" of
homosexuality...
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From The
Times of India Online
A Leonardo da Vinci scholar has raised the
tantalizing possibility that the Renaissance master had an
illegitimate son -- an idea in sharp contrast with the traditional
perception of Leonardo as gay...
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