Leonardo da Vinci : the biography / Walter Isaacson

London : Simon & Schuster, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 599 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Main characters -- Currency in Italy in 1500 -- Primary periods of Leonardo's life -- Timeline -- Introduction : I can also paint -- Childhood -- Apprentice -- On his own -- Milan -- Leonardo's notebooks -- Court entertainer -- Personal life -- Vitruvian man -- The horse monument -- Scientist -- Birds and flight -- The mechanical arts -- Math -- The nature of man -- Virgin of the rocks -- The Milan portraits -- The science of art -- The Last Supper -- Personal turmoil -- Florence again -- Saint Anne -- Paintings lost and found -- Cesare Borgia -- Hydraulic engineer -- Michelangelo and the lost Battles -- Return to Milan -- Anatomy, round two -- The world and its waters -- Rome -- Pointing the way -- The Mona Lisa -- France -- Conclusion -- Coda : describe the tongue of the woodpecker. Subjects: Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519; Artists Italy ; Biography; Scientists Italy ; Biography; Gifted persons Italy ; Biography.