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Leonardo da Vinci

Format
EBook
Pages
104
ID
B00L5AYM12

In his youth, Leonardo da Vinci wrote confidently, "I wish to work miracles." By the time of his death in 1519, when he was sixty-seven and
famed throughout Europe, it seemed that he had accomplished wonders aplenty as an artist, engineer, inventor, and scientist. Here, from
author Jay Williams, is the moving story of the man behind the Renaissance myth.

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