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Priscilla go to and click on my books in the library pulldown menu. He comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in walter isaacsons ambitious new biography, leonardo da vinci. Isaacson has also penned bios of benjamin franklin, henry kissinger, and albert einstein, and he is the author of the innovators, a centuryspanning saga of the people who created. In his iconic vitruvian man, completed when he was 38 and struggling to learn latin, leonardo peers at himself with furrowed brow and tries to grasp. But, wonderful narrator, actor alfred molina, kept referring to illustrations in a pdf.
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