Leonardo: 518 books

This classic book contains John Francis Rigaud's translation of Leonardo da Vinci's 'A Treatise on Painting'. A Treatise on Painting is a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings entered in his notebooks under the general heading "On Painting". The manuscripts were gathered together by...

Leonardo Da Vinci was an immensely popular Italian polymath, the epitome of the 'Renaissance Man', famous mostly for his paintings such as the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, the drawing of Vitruvian Man. Being a genius artist, sculptor and inventor, Da Vinci was greatly interested in the laws of science...

The great artist Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks probably started out as just a way for him to improve the quality of his paintings. He studied anatomy to portray the human body accurately. He studied plants and rocks to make them authentic for his paintings. Somewhere along the line, however, the books...

The long obscurity of the Dark Ages lifted over Italy, awakening to a national though a divided consciousness. Already two distinct tendencies were apparent. The practical and rational, on the one hand, was soon to be outwardly reflected in the burgher-life of Florence and the Lombard cities, while...

Leonardo Bruni, detto Leonardo Aretino (1370 – 1444), è stato un filosofo, scrittore e umanista attivo nella Firenze della prima metà del Quattrocento. Uomo di grande personalità, retore arguto, si inserì nella disputa sulla questione della lingua. Nei suoi studi, riscontrando fenomeni di corruzione...

Una serie di storie, favole, leggende scritte e raccolte dal grande Leonardo da Vinci, e attualizzate nello stile e nel linguaggio per una lettura più scorrevole e immediata. Dalle parole di Leonardo emerge l’immenso amore per la natura di un autore che riesce a colorare di poesia...

“Here’s Leonardo, raw and unmediated, on art, color, anatomy, astronomy and much more**” (Los Angeles Times).** Towering across time as the creator of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance...

The long obscurity of the Dark Ages lifted over Italy, awakening to a national though a divided consciousness. Already two distinct tendencies were apparent. The practical and rational, on the one hand, was soon to be outwardly reflected in the burgher-life of Florence and the Lombard cities, while...

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity"...

REVIEW WHY YOU TAKE ALCOHOL AND DRUGS? This book is a collection of tips Leonardo Boscarato, who has decided to dial it in order to help society to unravel, at least in part, the fundamental question that generates problems of various kinds, including of course, bullying , addictions,...

With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketches the exhilarating life behind the closed doors of restaurants, and the unlikely work ethics of the kitchen. ** ** In Italy, five-star restaurants and celebrity chefs may seem, on the surface, a part...

The proposal for a new socio-economic model which today is widely sought for, outlined by one of the Italian economists at the forefront for the change of our economic system. The language is purposely simple and accessible to every reader, as the book is aimed at sensitizing public opinion worldwide....