frenchcookie49 reviewed Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Comprehensive biography of Leonardo da Vinci
5 stars
I have a lot of knowledge of Leonardo, I've read many of his biographies in English and I'll say that this is onenof the most comprehensive, sewing together both the little we know of Leonardo's personal life and the people who knew him personally and the studies he made.
Leonardo is a figure that is hard to answer because the things that made him great were things that never made public knowledge. His art is well known but his experiments and inventions never made it to the populace. If he ever had we might be living in a very different world now.
But that is part of Leonardos tragedy. He died feeling that his life had come to naught. And for that, he should be demoralized in such a biography.
