The author engages in a certain amount of speculation as to the personal life of the artist, as there are few examples in the notebooks of emotional or inter-personal expression. After all, Leonardo himself painted his portrait subjects against blurry, indistinct landscapes. Then again, the choice of a tight angle lens might have been deliberate. Connecting these dots - showing that Leonardo shared interests and ideas with many predecessors and contemporaries - would have made Isaacson’s history even richer. Isaacson shows that the work of great scholars like the Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp can be exciting in its own right. Again and again he turns up a surprising and revelatory detail. As Isaacson follows Leonardo from one locale and occupation to another, his energy never fails and his curiosity never dims. Without fuss and without Freud - though Dan Brown, unfortunately, makes an appearance - Isaacson uses his subject’s contradictions to give him humanity and depth. Though Leonardo wrote endlessly, he revealed little directly about his inner life. Walter Isaacson follows dozens of clues to reanimate Leonardo da Vinci, one of the boldest of these border-crossers.
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The review ratings are based on a 5 star (1/2 stars sometimes) system with a 3 being an average read for me. I've also recently added tags that will show up at the end of each review that serve the same purpose. Hopefully you'll find it a helpful way to navigate the site and find books you'll enjoy. Take a moment to explore, read a couple reviews, and let me know what you think.įor your convenience, I use #hashtags in the reviews and when you click on one, you'll find more books with that theme. I'll never spoil a story by giving away a plot twist! Hopefully you'll find one or two of interest and will discover a new book or author to add to YOUR TBR list. It's my goal to provide real reviews of the books I read without totally rehashing every plot. It proves temporary, however, in light of the Duchess's increasing jealousy over Beatrice's rising star when she produces an heir for her husband and gains his confidence and love. Finding scorn rather than love as her husband's mistress remains in place, Beatrice turns to her cousin the Duchess of Milan for solace, and a powerful alliance is formed. Il Moro, the ambitious and much beloved regent for the Duke of Milan, under duress takes as his wife the young Beatrice, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara. Replete with references to Fortune's wheel and Dante, as well as excerpts from Leonardo da Vinci's correspondence, this complex epic chronicles the dynamics of and struggle for power in Milan during the 1490's. Lavishly detailed and intensely intimate: a second novel from Ennis, who here creates as exotic a situation as he did in Byzantium (1989) by focusing on the Machiavellian maneuvers and sexual politics of a critical period in the history of Renaissance Italy. He received Sahitya Academy award in 1985 for his novel Those Days ( সেই সময়). Ganguly created the Bengali fictional character Kakababu and wrote a series of novels on this character which became significant in Indian children's literature. Later he wrote for many different publications. Born in Faridpur, Bangladesh, Gangopadhyay obtained his Master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta, In 1953 he started a Bengali poetry magazine Krittibas. Works: Author of well over 200 books, Sunil was a prolific writer who has excelled in different genres but declares poetry to b Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali: সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়) was a famous Indian poet and novelist. Gangopadhyay used the pen names Nil Lohit, Sanatan Pathak, and Nil Upadhyay. Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali: সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়) was a famous Indian poet and novelist. |