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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Leonardo da Vinci, Lucrezia Borgia, Johann Tetzel, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Ambrosius Holbein, William Grocyn, John Colet, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Jo Gwang-jo, Hugh Oldham, Lorenz von Bibra, Qualpopoca, Alauddin Husain Shah, Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Michael Wolgemut, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Juan de Flandes, Leonhard von Keutschach, Jan Joest, Singai Pararasasegaram, Samuel Sarfati, Jan Polack, Seamus mac Pilib Mac Mathghamhna, Patrick Paniter, Magnus Hundt, H j S un, Bars Bolud Jinong, Rudolph von Langen, Robert Rede, Juan de Quevedo, Francesco Bonsignori, Jack O'Newbury, Zanobi Acciaioli, Blanche of Montferrat, Bartholomaus Zeitblom, Diogo Ortiz de Villegas, Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle, Philippe de Luxembourg, Franceschetto Cybo, Anna Bulow, Philibert Berthelier, Hans Tugi, Wigand Wirt, Toki Masafusa. Excerpt: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (.)) (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, 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" and "feverishly inventive imagination." He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote." Marco Rosci points out, however, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual fo...
